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Sun Chunlan (Chinese: 孙春兰; born 24 May 1950) is a retired Chinese politician. She served as the second-ranked Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China and the highest-ranking incumbent female government official until March 2023.
- Politician
- Communist Party of China (1973–present)
May 23, 2022 · Today, the 71-year-old is the nation’s top official overseeing COVID-19 pandemic control, demonstrating the tremendous faith shown in her by strongman President Xi Jinping at a critical point, with...
Oct 19, 2022 · Mao’s phrase that “women hold up half the sky” rings hollow as China’s most powerful female politician prepares for retirement with few others in line. Sun Chunlan at the National People ...
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As the Omicron variant continues to challenge China’s Covid-19 defences, so does Sun’s almost non-stop inspection tours across the country. She hammers local officials into closely following Beijing’s “dynamic zero” policy, which relies on draconian measures including mass testing and lockdowns. When a massive fifth wave of outbreaks brought Hong K...
As a Politburo member, Sun has the full weight of the party leadership behind her in the fight against Covid-19. She is also a formidable taskmaster. One official who worked under her supervision during last year’s outbreak in the northeastern province of Jilin, described her style as “decisive and relentless, with an iron fist”. “She is very stern...
Past norms indicate Sun’s successor is likely to be one of the nine women serving alongside her on the party’s Central Committee, but none has credentials that approach hers. Before her promotion to the Politburo, Sun ruled as party boss, first in Dalian, the port city in Liaoning province, then Fujian province on the coast, and finally in the nort...
“Who is going to ‘hold up half the sky’ in the 20th party congress? It is not clear now as none of her potential [successors] come close to Sun’s extensive administrative experience,” said Gu Su, a political scientist at Nanjing University, invoking party founder Mao Zedong’s famous slogan on the importance of women. A front runner is Shen Yiqin, 6...
There is only one other female Central Committee member in a top regional post, the Inner Mongolia government’s chairwoman Wang Lixia, 58. But, as an alternate member of the policymaking group, she is seen as an unlikely candidate. According to Gu, there are “no hard and fast rules”, and it is possible there will be no woman in the next Politburo. ...
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Politburo Standing Committee – the party’s innermost core of power – has been a men’s club. And only eight women – including Sun, who was appointed in 2012 – have made it to the outer circle of the wider Politburo. Three were wives of party founders and prominent figures in China’s r...
Wu Yi was preceded by former vice-premier and central bank president Chen Huhua, an alternate member from 1977-1987, and succeeded by Liu Yandong, a former vice-premier in charge of education, culture, health and United Front Work, who served as a Politburo member from 2007-2017. Pitzer College’s Liu said the glass ceiling in China’s politics is a ...
Official statistics show gender inequality becomes more acute at the higher levels of the power hierarchy, despite the hailing of equality as one of the party’s key achievements. Female politicians are typically placed in less prominent jobs at lower levels, which makes their track record look weak compared to their male counterparts. Women make up...
A tally by the South China Morning Postshows women hold just 30 of the full and alternate 370-plus seats of the 19th Central Committee, and the percentage drops to a paltry 4 per cent in the Politburo. Liu also noted that, at county and municipal levels, women make up only about 5 to 8 per cent of the total leadership, with the vast majority in dep...
According to Liu, who received her PhD in political science from Columbia University, the equality advocated in China since the Mao era has been mainly confined to giving both genders the same space in the public sphere, but has not extended to political selection. “To put it bluntly, everyone has the right to serve the country, but it does not mea...
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Sun Chunlan, female, Han nationality, is a native of Hebei Province, Raoyang. She was born in 1950, entered the workforce in 1969 and joined CPC in 1973. She paid most of her career time in Liaoning Province and hold leading positions in Provincial Women's Federation, Provincial and National Trade Union.
Oct 17, 2022 · Sun Chunlan is a special case in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) galaxy: She is the only woman in the Politburo, the Beijing regime’s powerful executive body. But it’s not for long. Sun is...
Dec 1, 2022 · Vice-premier Sun Chunlan said on Wednesday that the Omicron variant was becoming “less pathogenic” and pointed to higher vaccination rates, even as China recorded tens of thousands of new cases...
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