Guizhou In December 2001, Shen became deputy party chief of
Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, then deputy party chief and head commissioner (mayor) of
Tongren. In April 2007, Shen became a member of the Standing Committee of
Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and head of the provincial party Publicity Department. In the
17th Party Congress at the end of 2007, Shen was appointed as an alternate of the
CCP Central Committee. In May 2012, she was named Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou. Later that year, she was reelected as an alternate of the Central Committee in the
18th Party congress. In April 2015 she became Deputy Secretary and the Political and Legal Affairs Commission (
Zhengfawei) Secretary of CCP Guizhou Committee. At the time of her appointment to the deputy party chief position, she became the fifth and the last
post-55 (born from 1955 to 1959 inclusive) female deputy secretary of provincial CCP committee, and the first female provincial
Zhengfawei chief in the country. In September 2017, Shen Yiqin was appointed as the acting Governor of Guizhou, the first female, the first person of
Bai ethnic heritage and the first Guizhou-born person since 1993 on this duty. Later that year, in the
19th Party Congress, Shen was appointed as a full member of the Central Committee. In November 2020, Shen was appointed as the
CCP Secretary of Guizhou. She was reappointed as a member of the Central Committee in the
20th Party Congress.
State Council In March 2023, Shen was appointed as a state councilor and in charge of human resource affairs, social affairs, civil affairs, women and children affairs and ethnic affairs. On 25 October 2023, Shen was appointed as the President of the
All-China Women's Federation (ACWF). == References ==