Gan Lin (; born October 1963) is a Chinese agronomist and politician and the current director of the

State Anti-Monopoly Bureau The State Anti-Monopoly Bureau () is an administrative agency under the State Council governing antitrust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by compa ...

, in office since November 2021. She was a member of the 12th Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and is a member of the 13th Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference..

Biography

Gan was born in

Xiangyin County Xiangyin County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of Yueyang City. Located on the southeastern shores of Lake Dongting, the Xiang River runs south to north through the middle lands of the county, the Zi Riv ...

Yueyang Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and Yangtze in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. Yueyang has an administrative area of an ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

province in 1963. She received her bachelor's degree and master's degree from

Hunan Agricultural University Hunan Agricultural University (, commonly referred to as HAU or Nongda) is a Public university, public research university located in Changsha, Hunan, China. Founded in 1951, the university was incorporated by two independent colleges under the ...

in 1984 and 1988, respectively. After graduation, she taught at the university. In February 1991, she entered

Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU; ) is a public university in Wuhan, giving priority to agriculture, characterized by life sciences and supplemented by the combination of agriculture, basic sciences, engineering, liberal arts, law, economic t ...

, where she earned her doctorate degree in 1993. She carried out postdoctoral research at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

in 1996 and then the Potato Research Center of

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC; sometimes Ag-Canada; french: Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada)''Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Agriculture ...

. She returned to China in 1999 and continued to teach at Hunan Agricultural University. She joined the

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in January 1994, and began her political career in May 2001, when she was appointed deputy director of Hunan Provincial Agricultural Department. In January 2003, she rose to become vice governor of Hunan, and held that office until February 2011, when she was transferred to

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and appointed deputy director of the

State Administration for Industry and Commerce Prior to March 2018, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC; ) was the authority in the People's Republic of China responsible for advancing legislation concerning the administration of industry and commerce in the People's Repub ...

. On December 5, 2017, she was proposed as a vice president of the 15th Central Committee of

, one of the China's eight political parties subservient to the

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. In November 2021, she became director of the newly established

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gan, Lin 1963 births Living people People from Xiangyin County Hunan Agricultural University alumni Huazhong Agricultural University alumni Alumni of the University of Nottingham Chinese agronomists People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan Members of the Standing Committee of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Members of the Standing Committee of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference