Hong Qiang

Hong began her career in March 1972 as a sent-down youth in Qingtang Commune, Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province. From September 1974 to August 1977, she studied radio components and materials at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Huazhong Institute of Technology. After graduation, she worked in the Ji’an Regional Bureau of Radio and Television, rising through the ranks from cadre to deputy section chief, and later section chief.^[2]

In November 1992, she became deputy head of the Organization Department of the Ji’an Prefectural Committee, later serving as party secretary of Anfu County. She was appointed party secretary of Ji'an (county-level city) in October 1997, during which she also pursued correspondence studies in party and government management at the Central Party School. In August 2000, she became head of the Organization Department of the Ji'an Municipal Committee.^[2]

Hong later served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Nanchang Municipal Committee and head of its Organization Department, and in 2002 became deputy head of the Jiangxi Provincial Organization Department.^[3] From July 2004 to November 2006, she was party secretary of Ji'an, before being promoted to head of the Organization Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and serving concurrently as a member of the provincial standing committee.^[4]

In December 2009, Hong was transferred to Jiangsu Province, where she served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection until October 2016.^[5] She was a delegate to the 17th and 18th National Congresses of the CCP, a member of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and a member of the 11th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress.^[6][7]