Fan Jinlong
Fan Jinlong is a Chinese politician currently serving as Executive Vice Chairman and Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress. He previously served as Executive Vice Governor of Jiangsu and Secretary General of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Biography
Fan was born in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, in November 1963. He began his higher education at Jiangsu Normal College in 1979, studying in the Suzhou regional teacher training program until 1981. Over the course of his career, he completed various educational programs, including undergraduate studies in economics at the Correspondence College of the Central Party School, graduate coursework in international economic law at Soochow University, and a graduate degree in political economy at the Jiangsu Provincial Party School. From 2004 to 2006, he studied at the China Europe [International Business School] and obtained an MBA.Fan joined the workforce in July 1981 and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in December 1983. He began his political career in local government, holding positions such as Youth League Secretary and government clerk in Wangxiu Commune, Taicang County. He later became manager of a local industrial company and Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary in Zhentang Township.
From 1990 to 1994, Fan served in leadership roles in Fuqiao Town, including as mayor and Party Secretary. In 1994, he was transferred to Suzhou to serve as Deputy Secretary and later Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League. In 1996, he became Deputy Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, and then its Secretary in 1999.
From 2003 to 2004, Fan served as Deputy Party Secretary of Wuxi. In December 2004, he was appointed Deputy Party Secretary and Acting Mayor of Huai'an, and confirmed as Mayor in January 2005. From 2008, he served as Secretary General of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, before being promoted to Secretary General of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and member of its Standing Committee in 2011.
In 2018, Fan was appointed Vice Governor of Jiangsu and concurrently served as Deputy Party Secretary of the provincial government, as well as President of the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Governance. He continued in this position until 2021.
In late 2021, Fan was appointed Deputy Party Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress. In January 2022, he was elected Vice Chairman, and in January 2023 he was elected Executive Vice Chairman. From March 2022 to March 2023, he also served as Director of the Credentials Review Committee.