Xu Kunlin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xu.

Xu Kunlin (Chinese: 许昆林; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘ Khun-lîm; born May 1965) is a Chinese politician who is the current governor of Jiangsu, in office since 19 October 2021. Previously he served as the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Suzhou, the largest city in Jiangsu.

Xu Kunlin
许昆林
Xu in 2023
Governor of Jiangsu
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2021
Party Secretary	Wu Zhenglong Xin Changxing
Preceded by	Wu Zhenglong
Personal details
Born	May 1965 (age 60) Yongchun County, Fujian, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Zhejiang Gongshang University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	许昆林
Traditional Chinese	許昆林
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xǔ Kūnlín Southern Min Hokkien POJ Khó͘ Khun-lîm

Biography

Xu was born in Yongchun County, Fujian, in May 1965. In 1980, he enrolled in Hangzhou Institute of Commerce (now Zhejiang Gongshang University), majoring in planning statistics, where he graduated in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

After university, in August 1984, he was dispatched to State Administration of commodity Prices (now National Development and Reform Commission), where he worked successively as director of the Department of Price Supervision, director of the Department of Fixed Assets Investment, and deputy secretary-general.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2017, he took office of vice mayor of Shanghai, one of the four direct-administered municipalities of China and one of China's economic centers.^[1]

In September 2020, he was transferred to the neighboring Jiangsu province and appointed party secretary of Suzhou, the top political position in the city.^[2] And he was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. On 19 October 2021, he was promoted to acting governor of Jiangsu, replacing Wu Zhenglong.^[3]