Zhang Sujun

Zhang Sujun was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, in 1955 and is a native of Tanghe County, Henan. He began his career in February 1976 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in September 1984. Zhang held various technical and managerial positions in Jiangsu's industrial sector, including as director of the laboratory at Wanshan Coal Mine Cement Plant, deputy director and later director of Longtan Cement Plant and the Heavy Machinery Plant, where he also served as deputy party secretary and party secretary.^[3][4][1]

He transitioned to public administration, serving as deputy director and party committee member at the Jiangsu Labor Reform Bureau, and held leadership roles in the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Justice and Prison Administration Bureau, including as party secretary and director.^[5] From December 2001 to September 2005, Zhang was a member of the Ministry of Justice party leadership group and director of its Political Department, before becoming vice minister in September 2005.^[4] He was elected vice president of the China Law Society in January 2009 and later appointed vice minister and deputy party secretary of the Ministry of Justice in January 2014.^[6] Since January 2016, he has been a member of the party leadership group and vice president of the China Law Society.^[7] In June 2024, he was elected president of the China Law Society’s Research Association of Rule of Law Culture.^[8]