Thursday, October 16, 2008

Luo Zhijun

Luo Zhijun is the current governor of Jiangsu Province, and the vice secretary of CPC's Jiangsu committee.

Luo was born in Lingyuan, Liaoning Province. He joined the army in February 1968 and became a soldier in PLA's North Sea Fleet. He joined Communist Party of China in the next year. In September 1978 he moved to Beijing and became the secretary of Communist Youth League committee at Beijing Medical Radioactive Machine Factory. He entered China Youth Daily in 1980, and was later promoted to secretary general in that agency.

In September 1995, he was appointed as vice mayor of Nanjing, and was elevated to mayor in 2002. He became the secretary of CPC Nanjing municipal committee in 2003. In December 2007, he was promoted to vice secretary of CPC Jiangsu committee. On January 4, 2008, he was elected as vice governor and acting governor of Jiangsu Province, and was confirmed as governor of Jiangsu on January 31, 2008.

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