Yi Lianhong (; born September 1959) is a Chinese politician, and the current Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang. Originally from Hunan province, Yi rose through the ranks as an academic at the provincial party school; he later served as party secretary of

Yueyang Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and Yangtze in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. Yueyang has an administrative area of a ...

and party secretary of

Changsha Changsha (; ; ; Changshanese pronunciation: (), Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China. Changsha is the 17th most populous city in China with a population of over 10 million, an ...

, before being transferred to Shenyang.

Biography

Yi Lianhong was born in Lianyuan County, Hunan province. He began to work in August 1976 as a

rusticated youth The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (), also known as the ''zhiqing'', were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the ...

performing manual labor in Guihua township. Following the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

, Yi attended

Hunan Normal University Hunan Normal University (), founded in 1938, is a public university in Changsha, Hunan Province. The university is the 211 Project university, one of the country's 100 national key universities in the 21st century that enjoy priority in obtain ...

and graduated in 1982 with a degree in political economics. In July 1982, he became an instructor at the Zhaoyang Basic College (). After a few years of teaching, he went on to graduate school at the

Shaanxi Normal University Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) () is a university in Xi'an, China. It was included in the 211 Project in 2006 and started its high-speed development. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university, identified by the Mini ...

to continue studying political economics. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

in June 1985. After receiving his master's degree in 1987, Yi was assigned to work at the Hunan Party School, where he taught economics. In 1990, he worked for a chemical factory in

Zhuzhou Zhuzhou (, ), formerly Jianning (建宁), is a prefecture-level city of Hunan Province, China, straddling the Xiang River southeast of the provincial capital, Changsha, and bordering Jiangxi province to the east. It is part of the " Greater Chan ...

as an administrator. In January 1992, he joined the science and technology research office at the Hunan Party School. In September 1994, he became assistant to the president of the party school. In September 1995 he was promoted to vice president of the party school. In July 2000, he was promoted again to executive vice president (prefecture-level, ''zhengtingji'', ). In May 2004, Yi was named party chief of

, his first foray into a regional leadership role. In November 2011, he was admitted to the Hunan

provincial party standing committee Members of the standing committees of the Chinese Communist Party provincial-level committees, commonly referred to as ''Shengwei Changwei'' (), make up the top ranks of the provincial-level organizations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I ...

, and a month later took on the office of the secretary-general. In May 2013, Yi was named party chief of

. In July 2017, he was transferred to Shenyang to become party chief there; it was the first cross-provincial transfer of Yi's career. In May 2018 he was named deputy party chief of

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

. After only serving two months as deputy party chief of

, Yi was named deputy party chief of

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

in August 2018, and he was appointed as the acting Governor in August 2018. On 18 October 2021, he was promoted to

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 Jiangxi, the top political position in the province. On 20 January 2022, he took office as chairman of Jiangxi People's Congress. In December 2022, he was appointed Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang, replacing

Yuan Jiajun Yuan Jiajun (; born 27 September 1962) is a Chinese aerospace engineer and politician who is serving as Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Before his political career, Yuan was bes ...

. Yi has authored a number of works on economics, agriculture, and his tenure in Yueyang.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yi, Lianhong 1959 births Governors of Jiangxi Politicians from Loudi Living people Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan Political office-holders in Hunan Political office-holders in Liaoning Hunan Normal University alumni Shaanxi Normal University alumni Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress