Yi Lianhong

Yi Lianhong
易炼红
Yi in 2023
Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang
In office 7 December 2022 – 28 October 2024
Deputy	Wang Hao (Governor)
Preceded by	Yuan Jiajun
Succeeded by	Wang Hao
Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress
In office 15 January 2023 – 27 November 2024
Preceded by	Yuan Jiajun
Communist Party Secretary of Jiangxi
In office 18 October 2021 – 6 December 2022
Deputy	Ye Jianchun (Governor)
Preceded by	Liu Qi
Succeeded by	Yin Hong
Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress
In office 20 January 2022 – 15 January 2023
Preceded by	Liu Qi
Succeeded by	Yin Hong
Governor of Jiangxi
In office 6 August 2018 – 21 October 2021
Party Secretary	Liu Qi
Preceded by	Liu Qi
Succeeded by	Ye Jianchun
Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning
In office May 2018 – July 2018
Party Secretary	Chen Qiufa
Preceded by	Wang Menghui
Succeeded by	Zhou Bo
Personal details
Born	September 1959 (age 65) Lianyuan, Hunan, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Hunan Normal University Shaanxi Normal University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	易炼红
Traditional Chinese	易煉紅
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yì Liànhóng

Yi Lianhong (Chinese: 易炼红; born September 1959) is a Chinese politician. Originally from Hunan province, Yi rose through the ranks as an academic at the provincial party school; he later served as party secretary of Yueyang and party secretary of Changsha, before being transferred to Shenyang.

Yi Lianhong was born in Lianyuan County, Hunan province. He began to work in August 1976 as a rusticated youth performing manual labor in Guihua township. Following the Cultural Revolution, Yi attended Hunan Normal University and graduated in 1982 with a degree in political economics. In July 1982, he became an instructor at the Zhaoyang Basic College (邵阳基础大学). After a few years of teaching, he went on to graduate school at the Shaanxi Normal University to continue studying political economics. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1985.

After receiving his master's degree in 1987, Yi was assigned to work at the Hunan Party School, where he taught economics. In 1990, he worked for a chemical factory in Zhuzhou as an administrator. In January 1992, he joined the science and technology research office at the Hunan Party School. In September 1994, he became assistant to the president of the party school. In September 1995 he was promoted to vice president of the party school. In July 2000, he was promoted again to executive vice president (prefecture-level, zhengtingji, 正厅级).

In May 2004, Yi was named party chief of Yueyang, his first foray into a regional leadership role. In November 2011, he was admitted to the Hunan provincial party standing committee, and a month later took on the office of the secretary-general.^[1][2]

In May 2013, Yi was named party chief of Changsha. In July 2017, he was transferred to Shenyang to become party chief there; it was the first cross-provincial transfer of Yi's career.^[3] In May 2018 he was named deputy party chief of Liaoning.

After only serving two months as deputy party chief of Liaoning, Yi was named deputy party chief of Jiangxi in August 2018,^[4] and he was appointed as the acting Governor in August 2018.^[5] On 18 October 2021, he was promoted to Communist Party Secretary of Jiangxi, the top political position in the province.^[6] On 20 January 2022, he took office as chairman of Jiangxi People's Congress.^[7]

In December 2022, he was appointed Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang, replacing Yuan Jiajun.

Yi has authored a number of works on economics, agriculture, and his tenure in Yueyang.