Zhang Yankun (; born January 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving as chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since January 2023. Zhang was a representative of the 18th and

19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics Nineteen is the eighth prime number. Number theory 19 forms a twin prime with 17, a cousin prime with 23, and a sexy prime with 13 ...

. He is a member of the 14th National Committee of the

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Career

Zhang was born in Fangcheng County,

Henan Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...

, in January 1963. He joined the

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(CCP) in April 1985, and entered the workforce in August of the same year. He worked for a long time in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in his early years. After being transferred to

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

, Zhang was

deputy party secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the depu ...

of Huairou County (now Huairou District) and subsequently governor of Huairou District in May 2002. He became governor of Shunyi District, in October 2006, and then party secretary, the top political position in the district, beginning in March 2009. He was appointed vice mayor of Beijing in January 2013, concurrently serving as deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee. He rose to secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission in October 2015 and was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee, the province's top authority. He was deputy party secretary of Beijing in November 2020, in addition to serving as president of the CCP Beijing Municipal Party School. In January 2022, he was chosen as vice chairperson of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress. In August 2022, he was proposed as president of the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, succeeding Wei Xiaodong. In January 2023, Zhang assumed the position of chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the regional advisory body.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Yankun 1963 births Living people People from Fangcheng County Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Henan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan Delegates to the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Chairpersons of the CPPCC Inner Mongolia Regional Committee