Collection of provincial Party chief

Lu Zhangong was elected secretary of Central China's Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on October 30, 2011.

Lu was elected to the post at the first plenary session of the 9th CPC Henan Provincial Committee held in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan.

Before appointed to the current position in November 2009, he had been the Communist Party chief in the southeastern coastal province of Fujian since 2004.

Lu Zhangong, a native of Cixi City, Zhejiang Province, was born in May 1952. He graduated from Heilongjiang Construction and Engineering School. He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1975 and from 1989 to 1996, he held a series of posts in the CPC Jiaxing Municipal Committee and the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee.

He became Deputy Secretary of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee in 1996 and Vice-Chairman of the All China Federation of Trade Unions 1998. He took over as Deputy Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee in 2001.

In 2002, he became provincial Vice-Governor, becoming a Governor in 2003, and Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee in 2004.

In November of 2009, the CPC Central Committee announced Lu had been appointed Secretary of the Henan Provincial Committee of the CPC, replacing Xu Guangchun.

He is a member of the 16th and 17th CPC Central Committee.

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