Guo Jun took office as deputy secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee and the former leaders of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office were all disclosed

Guo Jun

The second meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference closed in Beijing on the afternoon of June 27, and the meeting voted to approve relevant personnel matters. Among them, the meeting voted to add Guo Jun as deputy secretary general of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

According to the official resume, Guo Jun was born in January 1962 in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, joined the Communist Party of China in October 1984, began working in August 1986, graduated from China University of Political Science and Law, and has a postgraduate degree and a master's degree.

Guo Jun has worked in the Policy Research Office of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the Institute of Labor Movements of China, and has served as deputy director of the Legal Work Department and Director of the Democratic Management Department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, member of the Party Group, and director of the Legal Work Department. In January 2016, Guo Jun was appointed deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and a member of the party group.

According to the official website of the CPPCC National Committee, in the General Office of the CPPCC National Committee led by Xia Baolong, vice chairman and secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee, Guo Jun, the new deputy secretary general, ranks last of the 15 deputy secretaries-general.

The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) noted that before assuming the post of deputy secretary-general of the CPPCC National Committee, Guo Jun had already publicly held activities in May this year as a "member of the leading group of the CPPCC organs".

For example, on the morning of June 21 this year, the ORGANS of the CPPCC National Committee held a ceremony to unveil the logo of the site of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in the auditorium of the CPPCC National Committee, and Xia Baolong, vice chairman and secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee and secretary of the party group of the organ, attended and unveiled the plaque. Pan Ligang, deputy secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee and deputy secretary of the party group of the organ, presided over the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech. Members of the leading body of the organ, Deng Zongliang, Chang Rongjun, Zhou Xinjian, Shu Qiming, and Guo Jun, attended the meeting, and nearly 100 party members from various branches of the organ attended the meeting.

According to the "Plan for Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions" issued by the CPC Central Committee in March this year, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee unified the management of overseas Chinese affairs and merged the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council into the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee. The United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee retains the sign of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. The separate Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council will no longer be retained.

After the readjustment, the main responsibilities of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee in the field of overseas Chinese affairs are to unify the leadership of overseas United Front work, manage the administrative affairs of overseas Chinese affairs, be responsible for formulating policies and plans for overseas Chinese affairs work, investigate and study the situation of overseas Chinese at home and abroad and the work of overseas Chinese affairs, make overall plans and coordinate the work of relevant departments and social organizations related to overseas Chinese, contact relevant associations and representative figures in Hong Kong, Macao, and overseas, and guide and promote the propaganda, cultural exchanges, and Chinese education work related to overseas Chinese.

In addition, the responsibilities of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council such as friendship between overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese organizations are assigned to the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and the role of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese as a bridge between the party and the government and the vast number of returned overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese compatriots is brought into play.

With Guo Jun's new post, the whereabouts of the former leading group of the State Council's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, who were no longer retained separately in the course of institutional reform, have been fully disclosed: Qiu Yuanping, former director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, has been appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee; Xu Yousheng, former secretary of the party leading group and deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, has been appointed deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee; and has succeeded Qiu Yuanping as director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office; Tan Tianxing, former deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and member of the party leading group, has been appointed deputy director of the Central United Front Work Department; and Guo Jun, former deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and member of the party leading group, has served as deputy secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee.