52-year old Shi Xiaolin has been appointed Party Secretary of Sichuan's capital city Chengdu at a
meeting of the city’s leaders and cadres on August 26. Shi Xiaolin Shi is the first female party
chief of Chengdu in 40 years, the youngest party chief in any provincial capital city and is the
youngest female standing committee member of any provincial party committee. Born in 1969 in
Zhejiang province, Shi Xiaolin has studied and worked in Shanghai for more than three decades.
She holds a master’s degree in business administration from the city’s Tongji University. She rose
through the ranks in Shanghai and in 2017, was named as a standing committee member of the
Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and head of the committee’s United Front Work Department,
a vice-provincial level position. She moved to Jiangxi province, serving as a member of the
standing committee of the Communist Party’s Jiangxi Provincial Committee and head of the
committee’s publicity department, in 2018.
(Comment: Two other female cadres, Wu Guiying and Han Liming, have also been appointed
Party Secretaries of the provincial capital cities of Changsha and Nanjing, respectively. Earlier this
month, two other female officials rose to important government positions. Zou Jiayi, a former Vice
Finance Minister, has been named Deputy Secretary of the leading Communist Party group for the
General Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative
Conference (CPPCC) and Wang Lixia, formerly secretary of the Hohhot Municipal Party
Committee, has succeeded Bu Xiaolin as the Chairperson of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region.)
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