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Chen Kuiyuan
陈奎元
Chen Kuiyuan
Party Secretary of Henan
In office October 2000 – December 2002
Preceded by	Ma Zhongchen
Succeeded by	Li Keqiang
Party Secretary of Tibet
In office 1 December 1992 – 16 October 2000
Preceded by	Hu Jintao
Succeeded by	Guo Jinlong
Personal details
Born	January 1941 (age 84) Kangping,Liaoning Province
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Inner Mongolia Normal College
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	陈奎元
Traditional Chinese	陳奎元
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Kuíyuán

Chen Kuiyuan (simplified Chinese:陈奎元;traditional Chinese:陳奎元;pinyin:Chén Kuíyuán; born January 1941) is a former Chinese politician. In a lengthy public career, Chen served variously as the vice chairman ofChinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),^[1] the president and theChinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of theChinese Academy of Social Sciences, and CCP Committee Secretary of theTibet Autonomous Region andHenan. He retired in 2013.

Born inKangping,Liaoning Province, Chen graduated fromInner Mongolia Normal College, majoring in political education. He joined theChinese Communist Party (CCP) in May 1965. After graduation in 1964, Chen was assigned to work in the CCP party school inHulunbuir ofInner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He later served in various posts in Hulunbuir and eventually became the Party chief of local CCP committee. In 1989, Chen became a standing member of CCP Inner Mongolia committee, and the secretary of commission for higher institutions of the autonomous region. In 1991, he was elevated to the vice chairman ofInner Mongolia Autonomous Region.^[2]

In January 1992, Chen was transferred toTibet Autonomous Region and became the deputy secretary ofTibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In November of that year, Chen succeededHu Jintao as the secretary of CCP Tibet Committee, essentially the top official of Tibet.^[3]

In 2000, he was transferred toHenan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party as party secretary.^[4] In December 2002, theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party decided to appointLi Keqiang to replace Chen as Secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee.^[5]

In January 2003, he moved up to the central government to become president and party secretary of theChinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). In March 2003, at the first session of the10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Chen Kuiyuan was electedvice-chairman of the 10th CPPCC, and was reelected in March 2008; in April 2013, he stepped down as president and secretary of the CPC Central Committee of theChinese Academy of Social Sciences, and was succeeded byWang Weiguang.^[6]

Chen was a member of the14th,15th,16th, and17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[7][8]

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