Ren Hua

Ren Hua
任华
Vice-Chairwoman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
In office
January 2018 – June 2020
ChairmanShohrat Zakir
Personal details
BornMarch 1964 (age 60)
Yantai, Shandong, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party (1984–2020; expelled)
Alma materXinjiang University
Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese任華
Simplified Chinese任华
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRén Huá
In this Chinese name, the family name is Ren.

Ren Hua (Chinese: 任华; pinyin: Rén Huá; born March 1964) is a former Chinese politician who spent her entire career in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. As of June 2020 she was under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency. Previously she served as vice-chairwoman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.[1] Her superiors, Li Zhi and Nur Bekri, both were sacked for graft in 2015 and 2019, respectively.[2] Ren is the first senior official in Xinjiang and the fifth senior official in China to be targeted by China's top anticorruption watchdog in 2020.[3] She is also the fifth female ministerial level official in China caught since Xi Jinping's continues an anti-graft dragnet at all levels of government, military and ruling Communist Party.[4]

  1. ^ "Vice-chairperson of Xinjiang regional government under investigation". xinhuanet.com. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. ^ 新疆自治区副主席任华落马 遵义市委原常委、常务副市长王祖彬出庭受审. thepaper.com (in Chinese). 4 June 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  3. ^ William Zheng (2 June 2020). "Xinjiang propaganda official Ren Hua under corruption cloud in China". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  4. ^ 新疆原副主席任华被双开，是十八大以来第五位被查女部级高官. 163.com (in Chinese). 30 November 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.