Shi Jun (politician)

Shi was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, in January 1962. He began working in October 1978 at the China Welding Electrode Factory in Zigong, Sichuan, where he served as a worker, workshop dispatcher, deputy secretary, and later secretary of the factory Youth League committee, as well as secretary of the Youth League committee of the China Welding Materials Company. In 1984, he moved to the Zigong Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, serving successively as head of the Youth Workers Department and the Publicity Department. During this period, from 1984 to 1986, he completed full-time studies in political education at the China Youth University of Political Studies.^[3]

From 1986 to 1991, Shi served as deputy secretary of the Zigong Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League. While in this position, he studied economic management at Sichuan Normal University and undertook a temporary assignment as deputy Party secretary of Shishi Township in Fushun County. In 1991, he became secretary of the Zigong Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and its Party leadership group. He additionally held concurrent posts including executive deputy director of the Zigong High-Tech Zone Administrative Committee and chairman and general manager of Sichuan Huidong Development, later becoming the Party secretary of the high-tech zone.^[4][5]

From 1995 to 1997, Shi served as deputy secretary-general of the Zigong Municipal Government and director and Party secretary of the Zigong High-Tech Zone Administrative Committee, later becoming director and Party secretary of the Municipal Construction Committee. In 1997, he was appointed vice mayor of Zigong, and in 2001 he became a member of the municipal Party standing committee and executive vice mayor. Between 1996 and 1998, he completed graduate courses at the School of Economics and Management at Sichuan University.^[6]

In 2005, Shi was transferred to Guangyuan, where he served first as deputy Party secretary and acting mayor, and later as mayor. Between 2004 and 2006, he earned a Master of Engineering degree in architecture and civil engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University. In 2007, he was appointed Party secretary of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, a position he held until 2012.^[7][8]

Shi became assistant governor of Sichuan Province in 2012 and simultaneously served as head and Party secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department. He was awarded the police ranks of First-Class Police Supervisor in 2012 and Deputy General Supervisor in 2013. In early 2013, he became vice governor of Sichuan while retaining leadership of the provincial public security apparatus.^[9]

In 2015, he was appointed a member of the standing committee of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and secretary of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission. He moved to Beijing in 2016 to serve as deputy secretary-general of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission. From 2017 to 2018, he served as vice minister of public security.^[10] In 2018, he was appointed vice minister of the United Front Work Department,^[11] and in 2019 he concurrently became director of the Office of the Central Xinjiang Work Coordination Group.^[12][8]