Zeng Qinghong (; born April 1962) is a Chinese politician from

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 ...

province, serving since 2013 as the Head of the Organization Department of

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

. In the past, she had served as the mayor of

Jiujiang Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...

, and the vice governor of

. Zeng was born in

Xingguo County Xingguo County () is a County (People's Republic of China), county in south central Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of and located in the north of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou, with a total area ...

, Jiangxi Province. She graduated from Jiangxi University (now

Nanchang University Nanchang University (NCU; ) is a public research university located in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. NCU has also been recognized as a National Key University in the nation. Based on the new plan initiated by Chinese Ministry of Education in 2017, ...

) with a degree in

Marxist philosophy Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew fro ...

. She joined the

Communist Party of China 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 Civil ...

in July 1984. After graduating from university, she was sent to work for a grassroots Communist Youth League organization in

Xinfeng County, Jiangxi Xinfeng County () is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou, in the far south of Jiangxi province, bordering Guangdong province to the west. Administration The county executive, legislature, and court are located ...

. She then served in local party propaganda organizations teaching and disseminating party doctrine. She has served as the mayor of the cities of Pingxiang and

Ji'an Ji'an () is a prefecture-level city situated in the central region of Jiangxi province of the People's Republic of China while bordering Hunan province to the west. It has an area of and as of the 2020 census, had a population of 4,469,176, of ...

(both prefecture-level). In December 2008 she was named deputy party chief of Jiujiang, and was confirmed as mayor of Jiujiang on February 27, 2009.曾庆红当选九江市市长
/ref> In August 2011 she was named deputy Organization Department head of Jiangxi province, before being named vice governor of Jiangxi in January 2013. In July 2013, she was transferred to Chongqing to become head of the Organization Department there. During her tenure in Chongqing, the city's political scene experienced significant upheaval. In 2017, then Chongqing party chief

Sun Zhengcai Sun Zhengcai (; born September 25, 1963) is a former Chinese politician and senior regional official. From 2012 to 2017, Sun served as the Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing, an interior municipality, and a member of the Politburo of the Chi ...

was removed from office. It was reported that Zeng was also placed under investigation in September 2017; television footage showed her missing from an important meeting of municipal leaders. Zeng's name is identical in pronunciation and in written characters as former Vice President and Politburo Standing Committee member Zeng Qinghong; the two are not known to be related, though they are both from Jiangxi province, and they shook hands on at least one occasion: when the female Zeng Qinghong was the mayor of Pingxiang.

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