Yin Yicui (; born January 1955) is a

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

politician who previously served as the Chairwoman of the Shanghai People's Congress from 2013 to 2020.

Career

Yin was born in

Cangnan County Cangnan County ( ) is a county in the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang. The county government is in Lingxi. Cangnan has 20 towns, 14 townships, and two nationality townships. The predominant Chinese dialect spoken in Cangnan ...

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Ji ...

province. She began her career as a teenager in a food processing factory in

Jing'an District Jing'an District () is one of the central districts of Shanghai. In 2014, it had 1,180,000 inhabitants in an area of . The district borders the Hongkou District to the east, Huangpu District to the east and south, Putuo District to the west, ...

, where she joined the Communist Youth League. Yin is a graduate of

East China Normal University East China Normal University (ECNU) is a comprehensive public research university in Shanghai, China. It was formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University (est. 1924) and Kwang Hua University (est. 1925) and originated from the St. ...

, where she received her

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in 1982 and

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in 1995. Shanghai Municipal People's Congress
/ref> After graduating she stayed at the school to be a political instructor and lecturer. In 1992 she was named deputy governor of Jing'an District, then in 1994 she was appointed deputy head of the municipal office of education and health (department-level). She entered government in 1997, then rose to the municipal

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in 1997, then head of propaganda in Shanghai in 2000. In May 2000 she became the

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of Shanghai; she spent over a decade in the position. Finally she was promoted to Chair of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress in April 2013. She was succeeded in her deputy party chief post by Li Xi.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yin, Yicui 1955 births Living people Alternate members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Alternate members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese Communist Party politicians from Zhejiang Chinese women in politics East China Normal University alumni Members of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress People's Republic of China politicians from Zhejiang Political office-holders in Shanghai