Chen Xiaojiang

Chen Xiaojiang (; 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.

Early life and education Chen was born in Longyou County, Zhejiang, in June 1962. In 1980, he entered Wuhan Institute of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (now Wuhan University), majoring in power system and its automation at the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he graduated in 1984.

Editorial career He worked at the China Electric Power News for a short while before joining the China Water Resources and Electric Power News in 1986. He was promoted to chief editor in 1993 and president in 1996, respectively.

Political career Chen began his career in the Ministry of Water Resources in 1998, what he was appointed director-general of the General Office in April 2008 and then director of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission in March 2011.

In August 2015, he became head of the Publicity Department of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), but having held the position for only seven months.

In May 2016, he was transferred to northeast China's Liaoning province, where he was secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's agency in charge of anti-corruption efforts. On 25 October 2017, he became deputy secretary of the CCDI, a position at ministerial level. On 11 March 2018, he concurrently served as deputy director of the newly founded National Supervisory Commission.

On 24 December 2020, he was appointed director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission and the National People's Congress confirmed the appointment on December 26. Chen is the second Han minister since the ministry was established in 1949, after Li Weihan. He also served as deputy head of the United Front Work Department.

On 1 July 2025, he was appointed the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, succeeding Ma Xingrui. In June 2026, he gave a speech before foreign officials in Altay, calling for Xinjiang to develop further trade routes through Central Asia.