Chen Jiping

Chen Jiping was born in April 1946 in Tongzhou District, Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1974 and began his career in September 1969 after graduating from the Department of Electrochemistry at Tianjin University. From 1969 to 1970, he remained at the university awaiting job assignment. In August 1970, he was assigned to the Beijing Chemical Machinery Factory, where he worked as a technician, shift leader, Youth League cadre, head of the factory’s research group, and director of the publicity section.^[2]

In 1978, Chen was transferred to the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Chemical Industry Bureau, where he served until 1983. He later moved to the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party, holding positions as Deputy Division Chief of the Second Division of the Cadre Examination Bureau and Deputy Head of the Policy Research Group of the Central Rectification Steering Committee. Beginning in 1985, he served in the General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council as a deputy bureau-level and then bureau-level secretary, and in June 1991 concurrently became Director of the Research Office of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission.^[3][2]

In 1993, he became Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Comprehensive Management Commission. From January 1994 to December 2005, Chen served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (vice-ministerial level) and Director of the Office of the Central Comprehensive Management Commission. He was also elected Vice President of the China Law Society in January 1997, and beginning in February 2000 served concurrently as Deputy Head of the National "Sweep Away Pornography and Illegal Publications" Working Group.^[2]

From December 2005 to November 2011, he served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission and as Deputy Director and Director of the Central Comprehensive Management Commission, attaining ministerial rank. In November 2011, he became Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice President of the China Law Society, a position he held until June 2017.^[4] During this period, he also served as Director of the Prosecutor Selection Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the China National Committee for the Wellbeing of the Next Generation.^[5]