Shen Yiqin

Shen Yiqin (Chinese: 谌贻琴; pinyin: Shèn Yìqín; born December 1959) is a Chinese politician of Bai ethnic heritage currently serving as the Deputy Party Secretary and the Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary of Guizhou, a province in southwestern China. She has served in these positions since April 2015.

Shen was born in Zhijin County, Guizhou. Shen belonged to a group of sent-down youth in the latter years of the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution ended, she began studying history at Guizhou University. After graduating, she was sent to work for the provincial party school in Guizhou as a lecturer. She later became a human resources manager there. In 1998, she became vice president of the Guizhou party school. In 1999 she became Vice Chair of the Guizhou Social Sciences Academic Association.

In December 2001, Shen became deputy party chief of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, then deputy party chief and head commissioner (mayor) of Tongren.^[1] In April 2007, Shen became a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee of Guizhou and head of the provincial party propaganda department.^[2] In May 2012, she was named Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou.^[3] In April 2015 she became Deputy Party Secretary of Guizhou and Secretary of Political and Legal Affairs Commission (Zhengfawei) of Guizhou.^[4] At the time of her appointment to the deputy party chief position, she became the second sitting female zhuanzhi deputy party secretary in the country, and the only female provincial Zhengfawei chief in the country.^[5]

Shen is an alternate member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China.

References

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3. "十一届人大常委会二十八次会议闭幕 谌贻琴当选副省长". 贵网. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
4. "贵州省委副书记谌贻琴兼任政法委书记 秦如培不再担任". 中国经济网. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
5. "谌贻琴履新贵州成中国首位女政法书记". Powerapple. April 24, 2015.