Huang Kunming
| Huang Kunming | |
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| 黄坤明 | |
| Executive Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China | |
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Assumed office December 2014 |
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| Head | Liu Qibao |
| Preceded by | Luo Shugang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 1956 (age 60) Shanghang County, Fujian |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Alma mater |
Fujian Normal University Tsinghua University |
Huang Kunming (Chinese: 黄坤明; born November 1956) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the executive deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China (minister-level). Prior to his appointment he served in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and is considered a close associate of Xi Jinping. He was the one time Communist Party Secretary of Hangzhou. Huang is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Huang was born in Shanghang County, Fujian province. In December 1974, Huang began serving in the People's Liberation Army. Two years later, he joined the Communist Party of China. In 1977, after serving for three years in the army, he went back to his home county and became a secretary. He entered Fujian Normal University in 1978. After graduation, he was sent by the party to work in the Longyan region of Fujian in a series of administrative roles. He later rose through the hierarchy to become party chief of Yongding County, then in February 1998, following the conversion of the administrative status of Longyan from a Prefecture into a "City", Huang became its mayor.
In August 1999, he was sent to the city of Huzhou in neighbouring Zhejiang province to serve as mayor. In February 2003, he became party chief of Jiaxing, a prosperous city on China's east coast. By June 2007, Huang was named a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee and the head of the provincial party organization's Propaganda Department. At around the same time, he earned a Masters of Public Administration from Tsinghua University. In January 2010, Huang was named party chief of Hangzhou, one of about a dozen cities with "sub-provincial" status in China.
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