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Chen Jining | |
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陈吉宁 | |
.jpg) Chen in 2019 | |
| Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai | |
| Assumed office 28 October 2022 | |
| Mayor | Gong Zheng |
| Preceded by | Li Qiang |
| Mayor of Beijing | |
| In office 27 May 2017 – 28 October 2022 | |
| Party Secretary | Cai Qi |
| Preceded by | Cai Qi |
| Succeeded by | Yin Yong |
| Minister of Environmental Protection | |
| In office 27 February 2015 – 27 June 2017 | |
| Premier | Li Keqiang |
| Preceded by | Zhou Shengxian |
| Succeeded by | Li Ganjie |
| President of Tsinghua University | |
| In office 20 February 2012 – 28 January 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Gu Binglin |
| Succeeded by | Qiu Yong |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 February 1964 Gaizhou, Liaoning, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Spouse | Cathy Hu |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Academic, environmental engineer, ecologist, politician |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Civil engineering |
| Thesis | Modelling and control of the activated sludge process: towards a systematic framework (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | M. B. Beck |
Chen Jining (Chinese: 陈吉宁; pinyin: Chén Jíníng; born 4 February 1964) is a Chinese environmental scientist and politician who has been serving as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Shanghai since October 2022. Chen is a member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chen graduated from the Imperial College London with a PhD in environmental systems analysis in 1992. Staying at the Imperial College after his graduation, he completed his postdoctoral studies in 1994 and served as an assistant researcher from 1994 to 1997. In 1998, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater Tsinghua University in Beijing to serve as vice chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. He then served as the university's vice president from 2006 to 2007, executive vice president from 2007 to 2012, and president from 2012 to 2015.
Joining the Chinese government in 2015, Chen served as Minister of Environmental Protection of China from 2015 to 2017, Vice Mayor of Beijing from 2017 to 2018, and Mayor of Beijing from 2018 to 2022. In October 2022, he was appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai and as a member of the CCP Politburo.