Zhu Lieke

Zhu began his career in June 1975 as an educated youth and brigade cadre in Beituan Commune, Liancheng County, Fujian Province. He later worked briefly as a worker at a power plant in Liancheng County. In March 1978, he entered the Nanjing Forestry College (now Nanjing Forestry University), majoring in forest protection in the Department of Forestry, and graduated in January 1982 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture.^[2]

After graduation, Zhu joined the Ministry of Forestry, serving in the Department of Science and Technology in various capacities, including staff member and principal staff officer in the Division of Technology Extension. Between 1985 and 1987, he undertook temporary assignments in forestry bureaus in Jilin Province.^[3] From 1987 to 1994, he successively served as head and later deputy director, and then director, of the Division of International Scientific and Technological Cooperation within the same department. During this period, he also studied at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party and pursued further training in forestry project management at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.^[4]

In April 1994, Zhu became director of the General Affairs Division of the Ministry of Forestry's Department of Science and Technology. In March 1995, he was appointed assistant inspector (vice-ministerial departmental level). From July 1995 to January 1998, he aided Tibet, serving as deputy director of the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Forestry Commission of the Tibet Autonomous Region and concurrently as deputy director of its Forestry Department.^[5]

In August 1998, Zhu was appointed Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology of the State Forestry Administration. During this period, he pursued doctoral studies in botany at Northeast Forestry University, earning a Doctor of Science degree. He later concurrently served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Administration's Science and Technology Committee.^[6] In November 2001, Zhu was promoted to deputy director of the State Forestry Administration and member of its Leading Party Members' Group. In February 2010, he became deputy director and Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group. In January 2011, he was appointed a member of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.^[5]

In April 2011, Zhu was transferred to Shaanxi Province and appointed a member of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government. The following month, he became Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province. From December 2011, he concurrently served as Director of the Administrative Committee of the Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industries Demonstration Zone.^[7]

In April 2015, Zhu was appointed a member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of its Political and Legal Affairs Commission, while continuing to serve in provincial government roles.^[8] He later served concurrently as President of the Shaanxi Law Society.^[9] In January 2017, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of its Leading Party Members' Group, while retaining his provincial Party positions. Since May 2017, he has served solely as Vice Chairman and member of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Shaanxi Provincial CPPCC.^[10]

Zhu was elected Vice Chairman of the 12th Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the CPPCC on January 29, 2018.^[11]