Jin Yuzhang (, born 3 May 1942) is a Chinese civil servant, politician and former

nobleman Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy. It is normally ranked immediately below royalty. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm with many exclusive functions and characteristics. The characteris ...

. He is the current head of the

House of Aisin-Gioro The House of Aisin-Gioro was a Manchu clan that ruled the Later Jin dynasty (1616–1636), the Qing dynasty (1636–1912), and Manchukuo (1932–1945) in the history of China. Under the Ming dynasty, members of the Aisin Gioro clan served as chi ...

, Chinese Monarchy's former ruling house.
His father was Manchu nobleman Jin Youzhi, and he is a nephew of

Puyi Aisin-Gioro Puyi (; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967), courtesy name Yaozhi (曜之), was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty monarch. He became emperor at the age of two in 1908, but was forced to abdicate on 1 ...

, the last emperor of the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

of China.

Biography

Jin was born in Beijing on 3 May 1942. His father Prince Puren was the youngest brother of Puyi. Puyi was the last emperor of the Qing dynasty and who later became emperor of

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 after the Japanese ...

, a Japanese puppet state in northeastern China. Jin was educated at China University of Geosciences. After graduation he worked at the

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources from 1968 to 1985, before returning to Beijing to work at the Chongwen district Bureau of Environmental Protection. Jin is not a member of the

Communist Party of China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

, but has served on various elected assemblies as a non-partisan member. In 1999 he was elected to the Beijing People's Political Consultative Conference. He retired as vice-director of the Chongwen district government in Beijing in 2008.

Personal life

Jin married an ethnic Han Chinese woman in 1974. The couple has one child, daughter Jin Xin (金鑫), born in 1976.

Ancestry

Patrilineal descent

This patrilineal line shows that Jin Yuzhang was a descendant of rulers of

and ultimately from Odoli tribe. The patrilineal line traced back to

Bukūri Yongšon Bukūri Yongšon (; ? – ?) was a legendary ancestor of the future emperors of the Qing dynasty. Legend Bukūri Yongšon was claimed the progenitor of the Aisin Gioro clan by Hong Taiji, which would be the imperial family of China in the futur ...

. # Fancha, Million of Woduoli Mansion #Huihou # Möngke Temür, Chieftain of Jianzhou Jurchens, 1370-1433 # Cungšan, Chieftain of Jianzhou Jurchens, 1419-1467 # Sibeoci Fiyanggū, Chieftain of Jianzhou Jurchens, d. 1522 # Fuman, Chieftain of Jianzhou Jurchens, d. 1542 # Giocangga, Chieftain of Jianzhou Jurchens, 1526–1583 # Taksi, Chieftain of Jianzhou Jurchens, 1543-1583 # Nurhaci, Khan of Later Jin, 1559–1626 # Hong Taiji, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1592–1643 # Shunzhi, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1638–1661 # Kangxi, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1654–1722 # Yongzheng, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1678–1735 # Qianlong, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1711–1799 # Jiaqing, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1760–1820 # Daoguang, Emperor of Qing Dynasty, 1782–1850 # Yixuan, Prince Chun of the First Rank, 1840–1891 # Zaifeng, Prince Regent of Qing Dynasty, 1883–1951 # Jin Youzhi, 1918–2015 #Jin Yuzhang, b. 1942

References

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