CHINA-LEADERSHIP: CHAIRMAN OF HIKVISION AND NPC DEPUTY CHEN ZONGNIAN
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Hikvision Chairman and Communist Party Secretary Chen Zongnian joined the National People's Congress in 2018. He is the first video surveillance manufacturer from any country to be elected to the NPC though Hikvision is owned by the Chinese government. A photograph taken at the time at the NPC session showed the Hikvision Chairman standing immediately to the left of China's President and CCP CC General Secretary Xi Jinping, both wearing the official red badge of NPC delegates. Hikvision's 2016 Annual Report revealed that Chen Zongnian is a Han, born in December 1965 in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. He has no overseas residence permission. A PhD in Management he has served as Senior Engineer, as Assistant to the Head of 52nd Research Institute at China Electronics Technology Group, and Deputy Head of the 52nd Institute.
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