Shen Yiqin | |
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| 谌贻琴 | |
 Shen in 2023 | |
| State Councilor of China | |
| Assumed office 12 March 2023 Serving with Wang Xiaohong andWu Zhenglong | |
| Premier | Li Qiang |
| President of theAll-China Women's Federation | |
| Assumed office 25 October 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Shen Yueyue |
| Party Secretary of Guizhou | |
| In office 20 November 2020 – 9 December 2022 | |
| Deputy | Li Bingjun (Governor) |
| General Secretary | Xi Jinping |
| Preceded by | Sun Zhigang |
| Succeeded by | Xu Lin |
| Governor of Guizhou | |
| In office 6 September 2017 – 24 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Sun Zhigang |
| Succeeded by | Li Bingjun |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1959-12-15)15 December 1959 (age 65) Zhijin County, Guizhou |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | Guizhou University |
Shen Yiqin (Chinese:谌贻琴;pinyin:Shèn Yíqín; born 15 December 1959) is a Chinese politician ofBai ethnic heritage who is currently astate councilor and President of theAll-China Women's Federation since 2023. She previously served as theParty Secretary of Guizhou, a province in southwestern China, between November 2020 and December 2022.
Shen is the third female provincial-level party chief since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 afterWan Shaofen and formerVice PremierSun Chunlan.
Shen was born inZhijin County, Guizhou. Shen belonged to a group ofsent-down youth in the latter years of theCultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution ended, she began studying history atGuizhou 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 ofQiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, then deputy party chief and head commissioner (mayor) ofTongren.[1] In April 2007, Shen became a member of the provincialParty Standing Committee of Guizhou and head of the provincial party Publicity Department.[2] In the17th Party Congress at the end of 2007, Shen was appointed as an alternate of theCCP Central Committee.
In May 2012, she was named Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou.[3] Later that year, she was reelected as an alternate of the Central Committee in the18th Party congress. In April 2015 she became Deputy Secretary and the Political and Legal Affairs Commission (Zhengfawei) Secretary of CCP Guizhou Committee.[4] At the time of her appointment to the deputy party chief position, she became the fifth and the lastpost-55 (born from 1955 to 1959 inclusive) female deputy secretary of provincial CCP committee, and the first female provincialZhengfawei chief in the country.[5]
In September 2017, Shen Yiqin was appointed as the acting Governor of Guizhou, the first female, the first person ofBai ethnic heritage and the first Guizhou-born person since 1993 on this duty.[6] Later that year, in the19th Party Congress, Shen was appointed as a full member of the Central Committee.
In November 2020, Shen was appointed as theCCP Secretary of Guizhou.[7] She was reappointed as a member of the Central Committee in the20th Party Congress.
In March 2023, Shen was appointed as a state councilor and in charge of human resource affairs, social affairs, civil affairs, women and children affairs and ethnic affairs.[8]
On 25 October 2023, Shen was appointed as the President of theAll-China Women's Federation (ACWF).[8] Later that month, in an article in the Party's top theoretical journalQiushi, Shen wrote that women must contribute to the “great cause of national rejuvenation and demonstrate the power of half the sky”, continuing by writing the work of women and the ACWF should always follow "the correct political path and the party’s lead".[8]
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| Preceded by | Party Secretary of Guizhou 2020–2022 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | President of theAll-China Women's Federation 2023–present | Incumbent |
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