Lai Zehua | |||||||
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赖泽华 | |||||||
| Party Branch Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Ecology and Environment Department | |||||||
| In office October 2021 – May 2022 | |||||||
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| Born | September 1965 (age 59) Zijin County,Guangdong, China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma mater | Sun Yat-sen University | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 赖泽华 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 賴澤華 | ||||||
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Lai Zehua (Chinese:赖泽华; born September 1965) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in his home-provinceGuangdong. As of May 2023 he was under investigation by China's top anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as party branch secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Ecology and Environment Department.
Born inZijin County,Guangdong, he worked in government after college in 1988. He was mayor ofZhaoqing in 2015,party secretary and chairman of the People's Congress in 2016, and eventually party secretary ofZhongshan and chairman of the People's Congress in 2019.
He was a representative of the19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Lai was born inZijin County,Guangdong, in September 1965.[1] In 1984, he enrolled atSun Yat-sen University, where he majored in law.[1]
He began his political career in 1988, and joined theChinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 1990.[1]
He started his career fromHeyuan Municipal People's Government Office after university in 1988.[1] In May 2004 he was admitted to member of the CCP Heyuan Municipal Committee, the city's top authority, and was promoted to vice mayor in January 2012.[1] In February 2015, he was named acting mayor ofZhaoqing, confirmed in April that same year.[1] He rose to becomeparty secretary, the top political position in the city, in March 2016.[1] He concurrently served as chairman of Zhaoqing Municipal People's Congress.[1] In October 2019, he was appointed party secretary ofZhongshan, concurrently serving as chairman of the People's Congress.[1][2] He was chosen as party branch secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Ecology and Environment Department in October 2021.[3]
On 12 May 2023, he was suspected of "serious violations of laws and regulations" by theCentral Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and theNational Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China.[4]
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| Preceded by | Mayor of Zhaoqing 2015–2016 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by Xu Pinghua [zh] | Communist Party Secretary of Zhaoqing 2016–2019 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Communist Party Secretary of Zhongshan 2019–2021 | Succeeded by Guo Wenhai [zh] |