Zheng Songyan

He graduated from Fuzhou University.^[1] He has held a series of significant positions, including Director of the Office of Fujian Coal Group, General Manager of Fujian Coal Industry Corporation, and deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Economic and Trade Commission. On August 1, 2003, he was designated as the Director of the Fujian Economic and Trade Commission, and from August 24, 2004, he assumed the supplementary position of Director and Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of the Fujian Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.^[2]

On November 5, 2005, Zheng was designated as Deputy Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal CCP Committee. The subsequent day, he accepted the role of Acting Mayor, after which he was officially elected Mayor in January 2006 and became a member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[3] In June 2009, he was dismissed from his roles within the Fuzhou Party Committee, and in July, he was appointed Assistant Governor of Fujian Province. Zheng Songyan was formally removed from the position of Assistant Governor on September 28, 2011.^[4]