On April 13, Sun Jinlong was appointed Party Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Ecology (MEE). He is likely to soon be appointed as minister of MEE, replacing Li Ganjie, who was appointed governor of Shandong last week. A mining engineer by training, Sun Jinlong spent a significant chunk of his career in the Communist Youth League (CYL), working in the CYL secretariat from October 1995 to April 2003. He then worked in provincial leadership roles in Anhui (2003-2013) and Hunan (2013-2016). Starting in February 2016, Sun Jinlong worked as head of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps – a quasi-military organization aimed at developing and stabilizing the Western region. From his time in the CYL Secretariat Sun Jinlong would have forged high level contacts -- he has worked closely with the current President of the Supreme People’s Court Zhou Qiang, Vice Premier Hu Chunhua, and Premier Li Keqiang.
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