Chen Yixin (; born 1 September 1959) is a Chinese Communist Party politician who is the current Minister of State Security and the secretary-general of the

Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (), commonly referred to as ''Zhongyang Zhengfawei'' (中央政法委, literally "Central Poli-Legal Commission") in Chinese, is the organization under the Central Committee of the Chinese Commu ...

Early life and education

Chen was born in Taishun County, Zhejiang. He graduated with a degree in physics from Lishui Teacher's College (now Lishui University), where he served as a leader in the school's Communist Youth League.

Political career

He has served as deputy Secretary-General of Zhejiang Party Committee. In 2012 he became party secretary of

Jinhua , alternately romanized as Kinhwa, is a prefecture-level city in central Zhejiang province in eastern China. It borders the provincial capital of Hangzhou to the northwest, Quzhou to the southwest, Lishui to the south, Taizhou to the east, ...

. On 3 January 2013, he became Communist Party Secretary of Wenzhou, a post which he served until 1 December 2015. Between December 2014 and December 2015, Chen was also a member of the Zhejiang Communist Party Standing Committee. Chen later became the deputy director of the Office of the

Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms The Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (), formerly known as the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms () is a policy formulation and implementation body set up under the Politburo of the Chinese Communis ...

in 2015 until 2016. On 26 June 2017, Chen was appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of Wuhan, a position he held until 20 March 2018, as well as deputy party secretary of Hubei. In March 2018, Chen Yixin succeeded Wang Yongqing as the Secretary-General of the

. In 2020, Chen was announced to be leading efforts related to the 2019-20 coronavirus epidemic.

References

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