Chen Xiaojiang

Chen Xiaojiang (Chinese: 陈小江; pinyin: Chén Xiǎojiāng; born June 1962) is a Chinese writer and politician who is the Party Secretary of Xinjiang since 2025. Chen joined the Ministry of Water Resources in 1998, working there until he was appointed as the head of the Publicity Department of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's internal disciplinary body, in 2015. In 2016, he was appointed as the secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection. He became a vice minister of supervision in 2017. Chen became the deputy director of the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China, in 2018. He also served as the and deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. In 2020, Chen was appointed as the director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission; he was the first Han director of the commission in six decades. He also served as the Executive Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party since 2022. He succeeded Ma Xingrui as the Party Secretary of Xinjiang in 2025.