Xin Chunying

Xin Chunyin (; born 13 October 1956) is a Chinese legal scholar and politician who serves as a committee member on in the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. She is also the vice-chairperson of Legislative Affairs Commission of China's National People's Congress.

Career Xin was born in 1956 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. After graduating with a degree in law from Jilin University in 1978 she continued her studies, obtaining a Master's in Law in 1981 from the Chinese Academy of Social Science. Three years later she traveled to the United States as a visiting scholar of UC Berkeley School of Law where she discovered how Chinese politics was being perceived. Finishing her studies overseas in 1986 she returned to China and worked as a scholar at a number of national-level law institutions.