Lai Zehua
Lai Zehua | |||||||
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赖泽华 | |||||||
| Party Branch Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Ecology and Environment Department | |||||||
| In office October 2021 – May 2022 | |||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | September 1965 (age 58) Zijin County, Guangdong, China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma mater | Sun Yat-sen University | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 赖泽华 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 賴澤華 | ||||||
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Lai Zehua (Chinese: 赖泽华; born September 1965) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in his home-province Guangdong. As of May 2023 he was under investigation by China's top anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as party branch secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Ecology and Environment Department.
Born in Zijin County, Guangdong, he worked in government after college in 1988. He was mayor of Zhaoqing in 2015, party secretary and chairman of the People's Congress in 2016, and eventually party secretary of Zhongshan and chairman of the People's Congress in 2019.
He was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
Early life and education[edit]
Lai was born in Zijin County, Guangdong, in September 1965.[1] In 1984, he enrolled at Sun Yat-sen University, where he majored in law.[1]
Career[edit]
He began his political career in 1988, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 1990.[1]
He started his career from Heyuan Municipal People's Government Office after university in 1988.[1] In May 2004 he was admitted to member of the CCP Heyuan Municipal Committee, the city's top authority, and was promoted to vice mayor in January 2012.[1] In February 2015, he was named acting mayor of Zhaoqing, confirmed in April that same year.[1] He rose to become party secretary, the top political position in the city, in March 2016.[1] He concurrently served as chairman of Zhaoqing Municipal People's Congress.[1] In October 2019, he was appointed party secretary of Zhongshan, concurrently serving as chairman of the People's Congress.[1][2] He was chosen as party branch secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Ecology and Environment Department in October 2021.[3]
Downfall[edit]
On 12 May 2023, he was suspected of "serious violations of laws and regulations" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Zhuang Yu (庄彧) (22 October 2019). 赖泽华任中山市委书记 陈旭东另有任用(图/简历). ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ Jiang Ziwen (蒋子文) (21 October 2019). 广东人事：赖泽华任中山市委书记，范中杰任肇庆市委书记. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ Yi Yi (伊一) (29 October 2021). 中山市委原书记赖泽华已任广东省生态环境厅党组书记. ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ Zhuang Yu (庄彧) (13 May 2023). 广东省人大常委会机关一级巡视员赖泽华接受审查调查. ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 July 2023.