Zhang Xuezhong (politician)

Zhang was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Committee from 2003 to 2006 and secretary of the Sichuan Party Committee from 2002 to 2006. He is a deputy to the National People's Congress representing Sichuan Province. Zhang is also a member of the 16th Central Committee of the CPC and an alternate member of its Politburo.

Zhang Xuezhong (Chinese: 张学忠; born February 1943) is a Chinese politician and a deputy to the National People's Congress. He has held important party positions in the provinces including the vice-governor of Gansu and the Party Committee Secretary of Sichuan Province. He has also held the post of the Minister of Human Resources and Social Security in the central government. Zhang is considered an ally of the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Hu Jintao.

Zhang Xuezhong was born in February 1943 in Lanzhou, Gansu Province. He graduated from both the Northwest Normal University (1961) and Lanzhou University (1966) majoring in Chinese language and literature. Zhang subsequently worked as a primary school teacher. He joined the CCP in December 1960. For much of his initial career he taught at the Lanzhou Teachers' School but in 1990 he assumed provincial party and military posts. Zhang studied at the Central Party School between 1990 and 1994. In 1994 he transferred to Beijing and soon became the Minister of Human Resources and Social Security.