16 Facts About Huang Lixin

Huang Lixin is a Chinese politician currently serving as chairwoman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress.

Huang Lixin is the first woman to serve as party chief of Nanjing in history.

Huang Lixin is an alternate of the 18th and 19th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.

Huang Lixin was a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Huang Lixin graduated from the Jiangsu Agricultural College where she studied electromechanical drainage systems.

Huang Lixin went on to obtain a graduate degree in Marxist philosophy at Nanjing University.

Huang Lixin began working as an office worker at the provincial office for combating droughts.

In 1998, Huang Lixin spent several months taking executive management courses at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to China.

In February 2003 Huang Lixin was promoted to Vice Governor of Jiangsu.

Huang Lixin studied as part of a contingent of high-ranking Chinese officials at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2010.

In December 2011, Huang Lixin was named party chief of Wuxi, one of China's most prosperous cities.

In January 2015, following the investigation and dismissal of then-Nanjing party chief Yang Weize, Huang Lixin was named Party Secretary of Nanjing.

However, Huang Lixin did nothing during her tenure as secretary of the municipal committees of Wuxi and Nanjing, which led to a cliff-like decline in the economic development of the two places.

In July 2017, Huang Lixin was named deputy party secretary of Jiangsu province.

In January 2018, Huang Lixin was named chairwoman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

In January 2022, Huang Lixin was appointed chairwoman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.