page_title: Yunnan
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Yunnan / Governance / Politics
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 2002年云南丽江 红太阳广场 English: The Red Sun square (Hong Taiyang Guangchang) in Lijiang City, with a Mao Zedong momnument
context_page_description: Yunnan is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres and has a population of 48.300 million. The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, autonomous regions of Guangxi, and Tibet as well as Southeast Asian countries: Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014.
  Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres. Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
context_section_description: Secretaries of the CPC Yunnan Committee: The Secretary of the CPC is the highest ranking and most important position in Yunnan.
  Song Renqiong (宋任穷): 1950–1952
  Xie Fuzhi (谢富治): July 1952 – August 1959
  Yan Hongyan (阎红彦): August 1959 – January 1967
  Zhou Xing (周兴): June 1971 – October 1975
  Jia Qiyun (贾启允): October 1975 – February 1977
  An Pingsheng (安平生): February 1977 – July 1985
  Pu Chaozhu (普朝柱): July 1985 – June 1995
  Gao Yan (高严): June 1995 – August 1997
  Linghu An (令狐安): August 1997 – October 2001
  Bai Enpei (白恩培): October 2001 – August 2011
  Qin Guangrong (秦光荣): August 2011 – October 2014
  Li Jiheng (李纪恒): October 2014 – August 2016
  Chen Hao (陈豪): August 2016 – incumbent
  Governors of Yunnan: The Governor is the second highest office in Yunnan, after the Secretary of the CPC Yunnan Committee. The Governor, who is elected by the Yunnan Provincial People's Congress, is responsible for all economic, environmental, political, personnel and foreign affairs issues concerning Yunnan.
  Chen Geng (陈赓): March 1950 – February 1955
  Guo Yingqiu (郭影秋): February 1955 – November 1958
  Ding Yichuan (丁一川): November 1958 – January 1965
  Zhou Xing (周兴): January 1965 – 1966
  Tan Furen (谭甫仁): August 1968 – October 1970
  Zhou Xing: October 1970 – October 1975
  Jia Qiyun (贾启允): October 1975 – February 1977
  An Pingsheng (安平生): February 1977 – December 1979
  Liu Minghui (刘明辉): December 1979 – April 1983
  Pu Chaozhu (普朝柱): April 1983 – August 1985
  He Zhiqiang (和志强): August 1985 – January 1998
  Li Jiating (李嘉廷): January 1998 – June 2001
  Xu Rongkai (徐荣凯): June 2001 – November 2006
  Qin Guangrong (秦光荣): January 2007 – August 2011
  Li Jiheng (李纪恒): August 2011 – October 2014
  Chen Hao (陈豪): October 2014 – incumbent
caption: Statue of Mao Zedong in Lijiang
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