Lin Keqing

Lin Keqing is a Chinese politician, currently serving as chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Lin was a representative of the 18th and is a member of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He is an alternate of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Early life and education

Lin was born in Mianyang County, Hubei, in October 1966. In 1984, he was accepted to Renmin University of China, where he majored in commodity science.

Career

After University in 1988, Lin became an official in the CCP Beijing Dongcheng District Committee. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1990. There, he eventually became vice governor in 1994 and was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Beijing Dongcheng District Committee, the district's top authority, in 2001. He was assigned to the similar position in Daxing District in 2005. He served as governor of Daxing District from October 2005 to March 2008, and party secretary, the top political position in the district, from February 2008 to February 2013. Lin was appointed vice mayor of Beijing in 2013 and admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee, the city's top authority, in 2016.
In December 2019, Lin was transferred to south China's Guangdong province, where he was made executive vice governor and a standing committee member of the CCP Guangdong Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. In December 2021, he succeeded Zhang Shuofu as party secretary of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong. In January 2023, he took office as chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the provincial advisory body.