Political figures

Chen Yujian (February 1970-), born in Tancheng, Shandong Province, male, Han nationality, member of the Communist Party of China, political figure of the People's Republic of China.

Chen Xiaoya (March 1953-), female, Han nationality, native of Shashi, Hubei Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China. Graduated from Huazhong Institute of Technology majoring in electronic materials and components.

Chen Zhifang (1906-December 15, 1990), politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China. On August 25, 1958, after the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations with the Republic of Iraq, it began to dispatch ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Iraq. Chen Zhifang served as the first Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Iraq. In 1960, Zhang Weilie took over. In 1964, he succeeded He Ying as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Uganda. In 1970, he served as Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Switzerland. In 1977, he served as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Vietnam.

Chen Zhongshi (August 3, 1942 - April 29, 2016), a native of Baqiao, Shaanxi, was a contemporary writer in mainland China. He served as the chairman, party member, honorary chairman, and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association of the Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association. He was the second writer from the five northwest provinces to serve as the vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association after Ke Zhongping.

Chen Niannian (October 4, 1941 - December 21, 2021), Han nationality, politician of the People's Republic of China and member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Originally from Wuxing, Zhejiang, born in Shanghai. Graduated from the Department of Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University in 1964. He joined the Communist Party of China and served as the former president of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of the Nuclear Industry of China National Nuclear Corporation and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, representing the scientific and technological community, and was assigned to the 30th group.

Chen Chengxiu (November 1948-), Han nationality, entrepreneur and politician of the People's Republic of China, member of the 11th and 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Chen Mingming (born August 18, 1950), male, from Xiajin, Shandong Province, is a politician, diplomat and translator of the People's Republic of China.

Chen Yan (August 1963-), a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu, Han nationality, is a member of the Communist Party of China. Major in National Economic Planning, Department of Planning Economics, Renmin University of China. A politician of the People's Republic of China, he served as vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a representative of Guizhou Province at the 13th National People's Congress.

Nicholas Chan Hiu-fung, BBS, MH, JP (English: Nicholas Chan Hiu-fung, December 1973-), is a Hong Kong politician and lawyer. He is currently a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (legal profession) and a member of the Liberal Party. He once studied in Melbourne, Australia. He is the Director of the Hong Kong Regional Arbitration Center of the Asian-African Legal Council and a representative of the 13th and 14th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.

Chen Jingrun (May 22, 1933 - March 19, 1996), male, was a native of Lulei Village, Chengmen Town, Minhou County, Fujian Province (now Cangshan District, Fuzhou City), and his family was Lufeng Chen. Chinese mathematician, winner of the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Prize, his main achievements include Chen's theorem, which is the result of Chen Jingrun spending half his life studying Goldbach's conjecture.

Chen Zenggu (1907-February 29, 1988), formerly known as Chen Wenguang, also known as Junming, formerly known as Chen Jingming, Zeng Yifeng, and Zeng Gu, was a native of Xiaoyuan Village, Jiaozishan, Anshun County, Guizhou Province (now the Xiaoyuan Group, Dashan Village, Jiaozishan Town, Xixiu District, Anshun City), a political figure of the People's Republic of China. He once served as deputy secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, vice chairman and acting chairman of the Provincial People's Government, deputy minister of the Ministry of Education, deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group, secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee Secretariat, deputy to the First National People's Congress, member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and representative to the Seventh and Eighth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China.

Chen Feng (1916-1986), male, from Yangshan, Guangdong, was a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China.

Tanya Chen Suk-chong (English: Tanya Chen Suk-chong, September 14, 1971 -), native of Shanghai, practicing barrister in Hong Kong, former member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, former member of the Peak Constituency of the Central and Western District Council, and former convener of the pro-democracy conference. Chen Shuzhuang is a founding member of the Kuomintang, former vice chairman of foreign affairs and a former artist. Currently, he is a practicing barrister and host of D100 program. The political stance is liberal, calling for universal suffrage, legislating to protect citizens' freedom of access to information, promoting party politics, supporting the establishment of minimum wages and maximum working hours in all walks of life, and promoting a progressive tax system to ensure fair distribution of social resources, with the rule of law and human rights as core values. I moved to Taiwan in 2021 and changed my career from barrister to chef.

Chen Cheng (November 1972-), female, Han nationality, native of Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, Huai Opera actor and politician of the People's Republic of China, representative of Jiangsu region at the 13th National People's Congress. Member of China Democratic Alliance.

Chen Yushu, JP (1941-), Han nationality, native of Fujian, politician of the People's Republic of China, member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Served as chairman and general manager of Hong Kong Prosperity Development Group. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was specially invited to represent people from Hong Kong and was assigned to the 53rd group.

Chen Yuying (1933-) is a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu. Politician of the People's Republic of China.

Chen Congying (January 16, 1902 - May 31, 2003), a native of Changsha, Hunan, was a Chinese politician. The wife of Ren Bishi, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China.

Chen Shunyao (September 1917 - July 31, 2019), a politician in the People's Republic of China and the former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University. Song Ping's wife.

Chen Suhou (November 1936 - January 2, 2020), male, Han nationality, native of Lingao, Hainan, political figure of the People's Republic of China, former deputy governor of the Hainan Provincial People's Government, and former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial People's Congress.

Chen Xun (1912-1958), a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, was an entrepreneur and banker in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Chen Zhifeng (March 1950-), male, native of Tianjin, political figure of the People's Republic of China, former deputy mayor of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, vice chairman of the Tianjin CPPCC and member of the leading party group.

Chen Xin (1963-), native of Jingjiang, Jiangsu, Han nationality, political figure of the People's Republic of China, representative of the Jiangsu region of the National People's Congress.

Horace Chin Wan-kan (English: Horace Chin Wan-kan; November 8, 1961 -), pen name Chen Yun, is a Hong Kong scholar and writer. He studied for a master's degree in comparative literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a doctorate in folklore from the University of Göttingen in Germany (with a minor in ethnology and sinology). Chen Yungen is a city-state politician who advocates and promotes Hong Kong city-state autonomy. He was once the chairman of the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement and is currently the chairman and founder of the Hong Kong Renaissance Association. In 1997, Chan joined the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute, chaired by Ip Kwok-wah, special advisor to the then Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Tung Chee-hwa. He met Ho Chi-ping and followed him to work at the Arts Development Bureau and Home Affairs Bureau. Before joining the Home Affairs Bureau, Chan served as a part-time lecturer at City University, teaching cultural policy. Later, he served as the planning and research director of the Arts Development Bureau from 1997 to 2002, where he was responsible for arts planning and management to promote government cultural programs. After Ho Chi-ping was appointed as the Director of Home Affairs by the then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in July 2002, he decided to recruit a Research Director through internal funding in September of the same year. Chen Yungen was finally hired as the Research Director of the Home Affairs Bureau through an open recruitment process. Chen Yungen's research group was disbanded at the end of June 2007 with the departure of Ho Zhiping. Chen Yungen once served as an assistant professor in the Chinese Department of Lingnan University. His main works include the "Hong Kong City-State" series. "The Theory of Hong Kong City-State" won the fifth Hong Kong Book Award of Radio Television Hong Kong. In 2008, he won the Best Artist of the Year Award (Art Criticism) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. Most of the remaining books and newspaper columns focus on Hong Kong customs, Hong Kong culture, Chinese language and current affairs commentary. On August 15, 2016, Lingnan University decided not to renew his contract and ended his seven-year teaching career. On July 27, 2016, on behalf of the Hong Kong Renaissance Association, Chen Yungen joined forces with the Passionate Citizens and the Popular Politics Academy to form the Rep City Election Alliance. He participated in the Hong Kong Legislative Council election for the first time. He formed a list with Li Juexi, a member of the Passionate Citizens, to run in the New Territories East Constituency. They used the "Sustainable Basic Law" as their campaign platform. In the end, they received more than 23,000 votes and failed to be elected. After losing the election, Chen Yungen announced his withdrawal from the social movement on September 7, 2016. In March 2020, Chen Yungen announced that he had no intention to run for the Legislative Council general election that year. On March 1, 2021, Chen Yungen and a group of young Hong Kong people established a new political party, the Hong Kong Civic Party.

Chen Jitong (1851-1907), whose courtesy name was Jingru and nicknamed Sancheng Chake, was a native of Houguan, Fujian (now Fuzhou) in the Qing Dynasty. A politician, diplomat, writer and participant in the New Deal during the late Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the Democratic Republic of Taiwan in 1895, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs but fled Taiwan soon after.