Zeng Yixin
Zeng Yixin | |
|---|---|
曾益新 | |
| Deputy Director of the National Health Commission | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Director | Ma Xiaowei |
| Preceded by | Liu Qian |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 1962 (age 61) Lianyuan County, Hunan, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | University of South China Sun Yat-sen University University of Tokyo |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Oncology |
Zeng Yixin (Chinese: 曾益新; pinyin: Zēng Yìxīn; born October 1962) is a Chinese oncologist and politician, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Zeng was born in Lianyuan County (now Lianyuan), Hunan, in October 1962, but was raised in Huitong County.[3] Zeng joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1984.[3] In 1985, he graduated from Hengyang Medical College(now University of South China), and went on to receive his doctor's degree in medicine from Zhongshan Medical Sciences University (now Sun Yat-sen University) in 1990.[3] In July 1990, he became an attending doctor at the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital.[3] He carried out postdoctoral research at Tokyo Institute for the Elderly and the University of Tokyo in July 1992, and became a research assistant at the Hughes Institute of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in January 1995.[3]
Zeng returned to China in 1997 and that same yearbecame deputy director and director of the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in March, in addition to serving as director of Cancer Research Institute and president of Cancer Hospital.[3]
In August 2010, he became vice president of Peking Union Medical College, rising to president the next year.[3] In November 2015, he was made president of Beijing Hospital, a post he kept until February 2017. He was appointed deputy director of the National Health Commission in February 2017, concurrently serving as deputy director of the Central Health Committee.[3]
Honours and awards[edit]
- 2005 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
References[edit]
- ^ Fu Zhongming (符仲明) (25 September 2022). 中国共产党第二十次全国代表大会代表名单. ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ Xu Kun (徐锟) (22 October 2022). 中国共产党第二十届中央委员会候补委员名单（171名）. Chinadaily (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 北京医院院长曾益新任国家卫生计生委副主任 刘谦不再担任. ce.cn (in Chinese). 7 March 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- 1962 births
- Living people
- People from Lianyuan
- Scientists from Hunan
- University of South China alumni
- Sun Yat-sen University alumni
- University of Tokyo alumni
- Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan
- Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan
- Alternate members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party