Lian Zhixuan

Commencing his career in June 1962, he obtained a higher vocational education and finished a Chinese Communist Party cadre training program at the Fujian Party School. From 1983 to 1990, he held the positions of Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Fuzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau. He subsequently served as secretary of the party committee and later concurrently as mayor of Fuqing City from 1990 to 1996. He subsequently served as Deputy Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee from 1996 to 2001, before his appointment as Deputy Mayor and Acting Mayor of Fuzhou in 2001. He served as the mayor of Fuzhou from 2001 to 2005.^[2] In November 2005, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party [zh] and Secretary of the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress. In January 2006, he became director of the standing committee, retiring in 2010.^[3]

Following retirement, Lian remained in the role of chairman of the Fuzhou Senior Citizens' Sports Federation.^[4] In 1995, he was a delegate to the 10th National People's Congress. Lian Zhixuan died in Fuzhou on May 21, 2024, at the age of 80.^[5]