Zhang Yankun

Zhang was born in Fangcheng County, Henan, in January 1963.^[4] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1985, and entered the workforce in August of the same year.^[4] He worked for a long time in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in his early years.^[4]

After being transferred to Beijing, Zhang was deputy party secretary of Huairou County (now Huairou District) and subsequently governor of Huairou District in May 2002.^[4] He became governor of Shunyi District, in October 2006, and then party secretary, the top political position in the district, beginning in March 2009.^[4] He was appointed vice mayor of Beijing in January 2013, concurrently serving as deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee.^[4] He rose to secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission in October 2015 and was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee, the province's top authority.^[4] He was deputy party secretary of Beijing in November 2020, in addition to serving as president of the CCP Beijing Municipal Party School.^[4] In January 2022, he was chosen as vice chairperson of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress.^[5] In August 2022, he was proposed as president of the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, succeeding Wei Xiaodong.^[6]

In January 2023, Zhang assumed the position of chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the regional advisory body.^[7]