Han Zheng

Han Zheng ( Chinese  韩正 , Pinyin Hán Zhèng ; born April 1954 in the city of Cixi, Zhejiang Province ) is a Chinese politician and has been a member of the 19th Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China since October 2017 and first Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council since March 2018 .

Han Zheng on a state visit to Vladimir Putin in September 2018

Career

Zheng was born in April 1954 in Cixi City, Zhejiang Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1979 . Zheng holds a master's degree in economics from East China Normal University . From 2003 to 2012, Han was the mayor of Shanghai . The Expo was held in Shanghai under his leadership. Han was most recently secretary of the Shanghai Communist Party, a position he held from 2012 to 2017. In 2012 he became a member of the Communist Party's 18th Politburo. He is a proponent of free trade and further market reforms in China. From 2012 to 2017 he was a member of the Politburo and a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Zheng was elected to the 19th Politburo Standing Committee on October 25, 2017.

Political positions

Han is considered a reformer. He heads a small leadership group of the Chinese Communist Party with around 30 people that is supposed to promote the Greater Bay Area (Guandong, Hong Kong, Macau).

Web links

Commons : Han Zheng  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Han Zheng. Retrieved October 4, 2018 . 
2. ^ State Council Executive Vice Premier Han Zheng. Retrieved October 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Wolfgang Hirn: Shenzhen - The world economy of tomorrow . Campus, Frankfurt 2020, p. 266 .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Han is the family name here, Zheng is the first name.