Chen Yixin | |
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陈一新 | |
Chen in 2021 | |
6th Minister of State Security | |
Assumed office 30 October 2022 | |
Premier | Li Keqiang Li Qiang |
Preceded by | Chen Wenqing |
Secretary General of Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission | |
In office March 2018 – March 2023 | |
General Secretary | Xi Jinping |
Preceded by | Wang Yongqing |
Succeeded by | Yin Bai |
Personal details | |
Born | Taishun County, Zhejiang, China | 1 September 1959
Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Education | Lishui Teacher's College Zhejiang Provincial Party School |
Chen Yixin (Chinese: 陈一新; born 1 September 1959) is a Chinese politician who is the current Minister of State Security and the former secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party from 2018 to 2023.
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.[1]
He has served as deputy Secretary-General of Zhejiang Party Committee. In 2012 he became party secretary of Jinhua. On 3 January 2013, he became Communist Party Secretary of Wenzhou, a post which he served until 1 December 2015.[1] 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 in 2015 until 2016.[2] 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.[3]
In March 2018, Chen Yixin succeeded Wang Yongqing as the Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.[4][5]
In 2020, Chen was announced to be leading efforts related to the 2019-20 coronavirus epidemic.[6]