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Zhou Shengxian (Chinese: 周生贤; born December 1949) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the inaugural Minister of Environmental Protection.

Biography

Zhou was born in Wuzhong, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1972, and is a senior economist. He began his career as a middle school teacher. Eventually he rose to become Secretary-General of the Ningxia Autonomous Regional government, then Vice-Chairman of Ningxia, then he became deputy director of the State Forestry Administration.

He became Minister of Environmental Protection in 2008, after the ministry was reformed from the Environment Protection Bureau. The ministry was given more powers than the Bureau. He left office as environmental protection minister in 2015 due to having reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 for minister-level officials. Since then he has become a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and sits on the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment.

Zhou was an alternate member of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees.

References

1. "China warns officials against fudging emission survey figures". The Times of India. 21 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2010.

v t e 12th State Council of China
Li Keqiang Cabinet I (2013–2018)
Premier	Li Keqiang (Party branch secretary)	Premier Li Keqiang 1st Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli
Vice Premiers	Zhang Gaoli Liu Yandong♀ Wang Yang Ma Kai
State Councilors	Yang Jing (dismissed Feb 2018) Chang Wanquan Yang Jiechi Guo Shengkun Wang Yong
Secretary-General	Yang Jing (dismissed Feb 2018)
Ministers	01 Foreign Affairs Wang Yi 02 National Defense Chang Wanquan 03 Development & Reform Commission Xu Shaoshi → He Lifeng 04 Education Yuan Guiren → Chen Baosheng 05 Science & Technology Wan Gang (Zhi Gong Party Chairman; CPPCC Vice-Chairman) 06 Industry & Information Technology Miao Wei 07 Ethnic Affairs Commission Wang Zhengwei (CPPCC Vice-Chairman) → Bagatur 08 Public Security Guo Shengkun → Zhao Kezhi 09 State Security Geng Huichang → Chen Wenqing 10 Supervision Huang Shuxian → Yang Xiaodu 11 Civil Affairs Li Liguo → Huang Shuxian 12 Justice Wu Aiying♀ → Zhang Jun 13 Finance Lou Jiwei → Xiao Jie 14 Human Resources & Social Security Yin Weimin 15 Land & Resources Jiang Daming 16 Environment Protection Zhou Shengxian → Chen Jining → Li Ganjie 17 Housing & Urban-Rural Development Jiang Weixin → Chen Zhenggao → Wang Menghui 18 Transport Yang Chuantang → Li Xiaopeng 19 Water Resources Chen Lei 20 Agriculture Han Changfu 21 Commerce Gao Hucheng → Zhong Shan 22 Culture Cai Wu → Luo Shugang 23 Health & Family Planning Commission Li Bin♀
Central Bank Governor	Zhou Xiaochuan (CPPCC Vice-Chairman)
Auditor-General	Liu Jiayi → Hu Zejun♀
: Member of the Politburo; : Member of the Politburo Standing Committee; ♀: female

• People's Republic of China politicians from Ningxia
• 1949 births
• Living people
• Chinese Communist Party politicians from Ningxia
• People from Wuzhong
• Ministers of environmental protection of the People's Republic of China
• Alternate members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party