Huang Kunming
Huang Kunming | ||
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黄坤明 | ||
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| Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong | ||
| Assumed office 28 October 2022 | ||
| General Secretary | Xi Jinping | |
| Preceded by | Li Xi | |
| Head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party | ||
| In office 30 October 2017 – 26 October 2022 | ||
| General Secretary | Xi Jinping | |
| Preceded by | Liu Qibao | |
| Succeeded by | Li Shulei | |
| Communist Party Secretary of Hangzhou | ||
| In office 20 January 2010 – 8 October 2013 | ||
| Preceded by | Wang Guoping | |
| Succeeded by | Gong Zheng | |
| Personal details | ||
| Born | November 1956 (age 67) Hanyu Pinyin Huáng Kūnmíng | |
| Yue: Cantonese | ||
| Jyutping | Wong4 Kwan1-ming4 | |
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Huang Kunming (Chinese: 黄坤明; born November 1956) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the Communist Party secretary of Guangdong and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Until 2022, he served as the head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. He joined the Publicity Department in 2014 as a deputy head. Prior to his appointment he served in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and is considered a close associate of Xi Jinping, the current general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the one time Communist Party secretary of Hangzhou.
Career
Huang was born in
In August 1999, he was sent to the city of Huzhou in neighbouring Zhejiang province to serve as mayor. In February 2003, he became party secretary of Jiaxing, a prosperous city on China's east coast. By June 2007, Huang was named a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee and the head of the provincial party organization's Publicity Department. At around the same time, he earned a Masters of Public Administration from Tsinghua University. In January 2010, Huang was named party secretary of Hangzhou, one of about a dozen cities with "sub-provincial" status in China.
Huang became an alternate member of the
The later years of Huang's career roughly follows in the footsteps of Xi Jinping, who was named General Secretary of the Communist Party in 2012. Huang began working with Xi in Fujian province where Xi served as governor. Later Huang moved to Zhejiang during Xi's term as Party Committee Secretary there. After Xi rose to become party leader, Huang again was transferred from Zhejiang to the party centre.[4] Because of Huang's close links with Xi, he is considered a member of the New Zhijiang Army, an informal grouping of Xi's closest associates who were considered destined for higher office.[5] After the 19th Party Congress, Huang became head of the Publicity Department, and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Shortly thereafter he also became head of a task force on combating pornography and illegal publications.[6]
Huang was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 19th Central Committee.
References
- ^ "黄坤明出任中央宣传部副部长". Ifeng. October 23, 2013.
- ^ "黄坤明正式履新中宣部常务副部长" (in Chinese). Ifeng. January 1, 2015.
- ^ "习近平亲信黄坤明任中宣部副部长 给刘云山安钉子". Boxun. 2013-10-24.
- ^ "杭州市委书记黄坤明将履新职 担外省常委或上调中央" (in Chinese). Takungpao. 2013-10-08.
- ^ Lan, Jiang (2015-01-31). ""之江新军"崛起 "闽江旧部"归队". On.cc.
- ^ "履新中宣部部长近3个月 黄坤明再添新职". Duowei News. 2018-01-18.
