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Lin Keqing | |||||||
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林克庆 | |||||||
| Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |||||||
| Assumed office 13 January 2023 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Wang Rong | ||||||
| Communist Party Secretary of Guangzhou | |||||||
| In office 3 December 2021 – 16 June 2023 | |||||||
| Deputy | Guo Yonghang (mayor) | ||||||
| Preceded by | Zhang Shuofu | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Guo Yonghang | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | October 1966 (age 58) Mianyang County, Hubei, China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma mater | Renmin University of China | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 林克庆 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 林克慶 | ||||||
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Lin Keqing (Chinese: 林克庆; born October 1966) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Lin was a representative of the 18th and is a member of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] He is an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2] He is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[3]
Lin was born in Mianyang County (now Xiantao), Hubei, in October 1966.[4] In 1984, he was accepted to Renmin University of China, where he majored in commodity science.[4]
After University in 1988, Lin became an official in the CCP Beijing Dongcheng District Committee.[4] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1990.[4] There, he eventually became vice governor in 1994 and was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Beijing Dongcheng District Committee, the district's top authority, in 2001.[4] He was assigned to the similar position in Daxing District in 2005.[4] He served as governor of Daxing District from October 2005 to March 2008, and party secretary, the top political position in the district, from February 2008 to February 2013.[4] Lin was appointed vice mayor of Beijing in 2013 and admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee, the city's top authority, in 2016.[4][5]
In December 2019, Lin was transferred to south China's Guangdong province, where he was made executive vice governor and a standing committee member of the CCP Guangdong Provincial Committee, the province's top authority.[6] In December 2021, he succeeded Zhang Shuofu as party secretary of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong.[7] In January 2023, he took office as chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the provincial advisory body.[8]