Sun Jinlong

Sun Jinlong
孙金龙
Party Branch Secretary of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment
Assumed office
April 14 2020
MinisterHuang Runqiu
Preceded byLi Ganjie
Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
In office
February 2016 – April 14 2020
Preceded byHan Yong
Succeeded byWang Junzheng
Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Hunan
In office
April 2013 – February 2016
Preceded byMei Kebao
Succeeded byUlan
Personal details
BornJanuary 1962 (age 62)
Zhongxiang County, Hubei, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materWuhan College of Geology
Nankai University
Renmin University

Sun Jinlong (Chinese: 孙金龙; born January 1962) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2016 as the Party Branch Secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Sun came to prominence in 2001, serving on the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League, then held office as party chief of Hefei, and the Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Anhui and secretary of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and the Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Hunan province. In July 2020, the United States announced Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against Sun Jinlong for human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.[1][2]

  1. ^ Lipes, Joshua (2020-07-31). "US Sanctions Key Paramilitary Group, Officials Over Abuses in China's Xinjiang Region". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  2. ^ "Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky Human Rights Executive Order". U.S. Department of the Treasury. 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2020-07-31.