Zhang Yankun

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Yankun (Chinese: 张延昆; 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 Yankun
张延昆
Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 January 2023
Preceded by	Li Xiuling
Personal details
Born	January 1963 (age 62) Fangcheng County, Henan, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	张延昆
Traditional Chinese	張延昆
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Yánkūsn

Zhang was a representative of the 18th and 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.^[1][2] He is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[3]

Career

Zhang was born in Fangcheng County, Henan, in January 1963.^[4] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1985, and entered the workforce in August of the same year.^[4] He worked for a long time in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in his early years.^[4]

After being transferred to Beijing, Zhang was deputy party secretary of Huairou County (now Huairou District) and subsequently governor of Huairou District in May 2002.^[4] He became governor of Shunyi District, in October 2006, and then party secretary, the top political position in the district, beginning in March 2009.^[4] 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.^[4] 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.^[4] He was deputy party secretary of Beijing in November 2020, in addition to serving as president of the CCP Beijing Municipal Party School.^[4] In January 2022, he was chosen as vice chairperson of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress.^[5] In August 2022, he was proposed as president of the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, succeeding Wei Xiaodong.^[6]

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.^[7]