Huang Qifan is a Chinese politician, best known for his term as the Mayor of Chongqing, one of China's four directly-controlled municipalities, between 2010 and 2016.
12 Facts About Huang Qifan
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Between 1994 and 1995 Huang Qifan served as the Director of the Policy Research Office of the Communist Party organization in Shanghai.
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Between 1995 and 2001 Huang Qifan served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government.
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Between 1998 and 1999 Huang Qifan took on a one-year stint pursuing his Executive MBA at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.
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Huang Qifan was transferred to work in Chongqing in 2001, several years after the city was elevated to "Direct-controlled Municipality" status equivalent to that of Shanghai.
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Huang Qifan was the city's Deputy Mayor from 2001 to 2009 and sat on the Communist Party's Chongqing Standing Committee.
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Huang Qifan is unique in that he has served under four Chongqing Party Secretaries He Guoqiang, Wang Yang, Bo Xilai, and Zhang Dejiang, each with their unique set of policies and political beliefs, and all of whom went on to become prominent politicians at the national level.
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Huang Qifan was considered a key political ally of Bo Xilai, who abruptly fell out of favour with the national leadership following the Wang Lijun incident in February 2012.
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Huang Qifan was elected to the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, and re-elected Mayor of Chongqing in January 2013.
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Huang Qifan left his post as mayor of Chongqing City on 29 December 2016; he then became Vice-Chair of the National People's Congress Financial and Economic Affairs Committee.
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Huang Qifan is an adviser to the China Finance 40 Forum.
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Huang Qifan has stated his opposition to the Hukou system, which he believes is unnecessarily reducing the competitiveness of older Chinese workers.