Sun Jinlong (; born January 1962) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2016 as the

Party Branch Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Sun came to prominence in 2001, serving on the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League, then held office as party chief of Hefei, and the

Deputy Communist Party Secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the deput ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

and secretary of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and the Deputy Communist Party Secretary of

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

province. In July 2020, the United States announced Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against Sun Jinlong for

human rights abuses Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

against

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and other ethnic minorities in

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

Early life and education

Sun was born in 1962 in

Zhongxiang Zhongxiang () is a county-level city of Jingmen, central Hubei province, People's Republic of China. The name ''Zhongxiang'' means "Blessed with propitious omen", and was given to the city by the Jiajing Emperor in the Ming dynasty. History Zhong ...

, Hubei province. He attended the Wuhan College of Geology (later folded into the China University of Geosciences), where he studied mining exploration. He then pursued graduate studies in the subject. Later he earned a master's and doctorate degrees in economics from Nankai University and

Renmin University The Renmin University of China (RUC; ) is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. RUC ...

Career

In 1986, he joined a squad of engineers in Liaoning. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1986, and began taking on administrative and leadership roles on the team. In 1990, he was named a "National Model Worker" and a "Provincial Model Worker".孙金龙简历
China Economics 2014-05-10 In July 1991, he was named vice president of China Geological Engineering Company (), at 29 years of age. He was stationed in Pakistan for a period of time. Two years later he was promoted to president and party chief. In January 1995, Sun was recruited to the

Communist Youth League The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League (CYL), is a youth movement of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, run by the ...

and subsequently earned his degrees from Nankai University and

. In December 2001 he was named a Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League. In April 2003, he was transferred to Anhui to join the provincial party leadership council and head of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission. In March 2005 he became party chief of Hefei. In Hefei, Sun was known for centralizing control and taking on ambitious infrastructure projects which resulted in significant decreases in congestion in the city, and also for fueling the city's economic growth. In July 2011, he was named

of Anhui province; in April 2013, he was transferred to Hunan province to serve as deputy party chief there. Sun was transferred to Xinjiang in 2016, taking office as the

Communist Party Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (minister-level). Sun was an alternate member of the 17th and

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Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. In April 2020 Sun was made the

of the

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. On 31 July 2020, the

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imposed

Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in D ...

sanctions and visa restrictions against Sun, together with his deputy Peng Jiarui for their connection to similar human rights abuse against the ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sun, Jinlong 1962 births Living people People's Republic of China politicians from Hubei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hubei Renmin University of China alumni China University of Geosciences alumni Nankai University alumni Political office-holders in Hunan Political office-holders in Anhui Politicians from Jingmen Alternate members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party People sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act