Sun Jinlong

Sun Jinlong (; 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.

Early life and education Sun was born in 1962 in Zhongxiang, Hubei province. He attended the Wuhan College of Geology (later folded into the China University of Geosciences), where he studied mining exploration. He then pursued graduate studies in the subject. Later he earned a master's and doctorate degrees in economics from Nankai University and Renmin University.

Career In 1986, he joined a squad of engineers in Liaoning. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1986, and began taking on administrative and leadership roles on the team. In 1990, he was named a "National Model Worker" and a "Provincial Model Worker".

In July 1991, he was named vice president of China Geological Engineering Company , at 29 years of age. He was stationed in Pakistan for a period of time. Two years later he was promoted to president and party chief. In January 1995, Sun was recruited to the Communist Youth League and subsequently earned his degrees from Nankai University and Renmin University. In December 2001 he was named a Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League. Sun prioritized the automobile, electric appliance, and equipment manufacturing sectors of the city's economy.

Sun was an alternate of the 17th and 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.

On 31 July 2020, the United States government imposed Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions and visa restrictions against Sun, together with his deputy Peng Jiarui, citing its view that they are engaged in human rights abuse against the ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.