Sun Zhengcai
| Sun Zhengcai | |
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| 孙政才 | |
| Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing | |
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Assumed office November 2012 |
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| Deputy |
Huang Qifan (mayor) Zhang Guoqing (zhuanzhi) |
| Preceded by | Zhang Dejiang |
| Communist Party Secretary of Jilin Province | |
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In office November 2009 – November 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Wang Min |
| Succeeded by | Wang Rulin |
| Minister of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China | |
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In office December 2006 – December 2009 |
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| Premier | Wen Jiabao |
| Preceded by | Du Qinglin |
| Succeeded by | Han Changfu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 1963 (age 53) Wendeng, Shandong |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Alma mater |
Qingdao Agricultural University China Agricultural University |
| Sun Zhengcai | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 孙政才 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 孫政才 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sūn Zhèngcái |
Sun Zhengcai (Chinese: 孙政才; born September 1963) is a Chinese politician and senior regional official. Since November 2012, Sun has been the Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing, an interior municipality, and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. Prior to that, he served as the Party Secretary of Jilin province, and Minister of Agriculture of China.
Sun is the youngest member of the 18th Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and one of only two members born after 1960, the other being Hu Chunhua. As such, Sun is considered to be a leading candidate for a top leadership position in the "6th Generation of Chinese leadership".
Sun was born to an ordinary family of farmers in a village located near the city of Rongcheng, Shandong province in September 1963. In 1980, Sun was admitted to the Laiyang Agricultural College (now Qingdao Agricultural University). After obtaining a bachelor's degree, he pursued post-graduate work at the Beijing Agriculture and Forestry Institute and the Beijing Agricultural University, where he obtained master's degrees in agronomy. After completing his academic work, he remained at the institute to conduct further research and eventually obtained positions as an administrator, rising to become executive vice president of the institute, in charge of its day-to-day work.
Sun joined the Communist Party of China in July 1988. In 1997, he was named governor and deputy party chief of Shunyi County in rural Beijing. Shunyi was then converted from a county to an urban district; Sun continued to serve as district governor. In February 2002, he became the Party Secretary of the Shunyi District outside of Beijing, and also earned a seat on the municipal Party Standing Committee. After serving concurrently as secretary general of the Beijing party organization, in December 2006, he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture according to the nomination of Premier Wen Jiabao. At age 43, Sun was one of the youngest State Council ministers at the time.
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