Fu Yuelan


Fu Yuelan is a retired Chinese politician of Li ethnicity from Hainan province. She served as Vice Chairwoman and Deputy Party Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial People's Congress, and earlier as Vice Governor of Hainan. She was also Head of the United Front Work Department of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Fu was born in Baisha, Hainan, in September 1953. She began her career in October 1972 as a cadre of the Women’s Federation of Baisha Commune, Guangdong Province, later serving as deputy director. In 1974, she joined the Chinese Communist Party. Between 1976 and 1986, she held a series of local posts in Baisha County, including Women’s Federation director, secretary of the commune Youth League Committee, and deputy secretary of the district Party committee. During this period, she also studied in cadre training programs at the Party schools of Hainan Autonomous Prefecture and Guangdong Province.
From 1988 to 1997, Fu worked in Baisha Li Autonomous County as a member of the county Party committee and concurrently as director of the county office. Between 1996 and 1997, she served temporarily as deputy director of the Second Division of the Commercial Credit Department of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. In 1997, she became deputy secretary of the Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County Party Committee and president of the county Party school. From 1999 to 2002, Fu served as the county magistrate of Qiongzhong. In April 2002, she was appointed a member of the Hainan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, later also serving as vice chairwoman of the Hainan Women’s Federation. In 2006, she became executive deputy head of the United Front Work Department of the CCP Hainan Provincial Committee, before being promoted to head in May 2007.
Fu was appointed Vice Governor of Hainan in September 2007, serving until January 2013. In 2013, she became Vice Chairwoman and Deputy Party Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial People’s Congress, a position she held until her retirement in 2017. Fu was a delegate to the 12th National People's Congress and an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. She was also a delegate to the 16th and 17th National Congresses of the CCP, and a member of the 5th and 6th Hainan Provincial Party Committees.