Zhang Chunxian is a Chinese

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 politician. From 2005 to 2010 he was the CPC party chief of Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

 Province. He was subsequently transferred to Xinjiang

Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

 to replace outgoing party secretary Wang Lequan

Wang Lequan

Wang Lequan is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the Deputy Chair of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was a prominent regional leader in Xinjiang, China, serving as the Region's Communist Party chief between 1994 and 2010...

.

Life and career

Originally from the city of Yuzhou in Henan

Henan

Henan , is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "豫" , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty state that included parts of Henan...

 province, Zhang Chunxian served as the deputy minister, and later minister, of the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2005. Since 2005, he has served as the Communist Party

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

 secretary for Hunan province. In 2006, Zhang simultaneously took on the role of chairman of the provincial People's Congress. Zhang replaced Wang Lequan as secretary of the Communist Party of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in April 2010 and was replaced by Zhou Qiang

Zhou Qiang

Zhou Qiang is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as the Party chief of the Communist Party of China Hunan committee, first-in-charge of the central Chinese province. He served as the province's governor between 2007 and 2010. Zhou's ascendancy to the party...

 in his role as secretary of the Communist Party and chairman of the provincial People's Congress.

He has been a member of the 16th

16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

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 and 17th

17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is in session from 2007 to 2012.It elected the 17th Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 2007.-Chronology:#1st Plenary Session#*Date: October 22, 2007#*Location: Beijing...

 Central Committee

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China. Its approximately 350 members and alternates are selected once every five years by the National Party Congress....

s.

Zhang is known for his use of a popular microblog service supported by Tencent, which spiked in usage during the 2011 National People's Congress

2011 National People's Congress

The 4th Plenary Session of the 11th National People's Congress held its annual meeting in March 2011 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The event opened on March 5 and concluded on March 14...

. He is the highest-ranking official in China to maintain a microblog.

External links

Biography of Zhang Chunxian, Xinhuanet

• Zhang Chunxian's microblog

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