Ye Hongzhuan

During the late Cultural Revolution, he was a sent-down youth in Xinglong People's Commune between March 1975 and October 1977.^[2] During that period, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1976.^[1][2][3] Then he became a staff member at the Longshan County Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and worked until February 1987.^[2]

Ye got involved in politics in February 1987, when he was appointed an official in the Longshan County Planning Committee, and was promoted to deputy director level section member in September 1988.^[2] He was deputy section chief of the Capital Construction Planning Section of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefectural Planning Committee in May 1990, rising to section chief in August 1992.^[2] In September 1994, he became general manager of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefectural Economic Construction Investment Company.^[2] A year later, in September 1995, he was transferred back to Xiangxi Prefectural Planning Committee (now Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefectural Development and Planning Committee) as deputy director, and was promoted to director in May 2001.^[2] In April 2006, Ye was made party secretary of Fenghuang County.^[2][3] In November 2017, he was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefectural Committee, the prefecture's top authority.^[2][3] In May 2008, he was transferred to Jishou and appointed party secretary, the top political position in the city.^[2][3] In December 2008, he was named deputy party secretary and acting governor of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, confirmed in March 2009.^[1][2][3] In January 2013, he was promoted again to party secretary, in addition to serving as vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress since January 2018.^[1][2][3] He retired in January 2022.^[1][2][3]

On 3 December 2025, Ye was suspected of "serious violations of laws and regulations" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China.^[1][4]