Ding Chun

Ding was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, in October 1970. He studied electrical engineering at Southeast University from 1988 to 1992, and later pursued graduate studies in power systems and automation at the Electric Power Automation Research Institute. After completing his master's degree in 1995, he joined the institute as an assistant engineer and subsequently advanced to positions including director of the Institute of Stability Technology Research and general manager of its affiliated companies under NARI Group Corporation.^[2][3]

In 2003, Ding entered politics as Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League Jiangsu Provincial Committee, later becoming its vice secretary and a member of its leading Party group. Between 2009 and 2010, he studied public administration at the University of Maryland as part of a senior management training program. In October 2010, he was appointed to the Standing Committee of the CPC Yangzhou Municipal Committee and concurrently served as head of the organization department and chairman of the city's Federation of Trade Unions. From 2012 to 2016, Ding was executive vice mayor of Yangzhou, during which time he pursued doctoral studies in management science and engineering at Nanjing University, obtaining a Ph.D. in 2014.^[4]

Ding became deputy Party secretary of Yangzhou in 2016 and was later transferred to Changzhou in 2017, where he served as deputy Party secretary and mayor until December 2019.^[5]

He was then appointed Party Secretary of Tongling, Anhui Province, where he also served concurrently as chairman of the Tongling Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee and First Secretary of the Tongling Military Sub-district Party Committee.^[6]

In December 2024, Ding was named Party Secretary of Huangshan, and in January 2025 he additionally assumed the role of First Secretary of the Huangshan Military Sub-district Party Committee.^[7][8]