Dai Yuan

Dai Yuan was born in Tianchang, Anhui in January 1962. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 1985 and entered the workforce in August 1982. He studied manufacturing engineering at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1978 to 1982.^[2] Early in his career, Dai worked as a technician and assistant engineer at Changzhou Hongzhuang Machinery Factory, and later took leadership roles in the Communist Youth League and various CCP positions within Changzhou's industrial enterprises.^[3]

From 1989, he served in the Changzhou municipal Youth League Committee and gradually advanced through local CCP ranks,^[4] including deputy minister of the Organization Department, secretary-general of the municipal CCP Committee, and secretary of Changzhou New District Committee.^[5] Dai subsequently held multiple senior municipal leadership roles, including CCP Deputy Committee Secretary of Changzhou, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and acting and then full mayor of Yancheng.^[6] In 2018, he became Party Secretary of Yancheng and chairman of the Yancheng People's Congress.^[7][8]

In 2021, Dai moved to Changzhou to serve as Secretary of the CPPCC Changzhou Committee, later becoming its chairman in 2022. Dai was a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress, a representative at multiple Party congresses in Yancheng and Changzhou, a member of the 13th CCP Changzhou Municipal Committee, and a member of the 12th and 13th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the CPPCC.^[9][10][11]