Sun Chunlan is elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Oct. 25, 2017. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Sun Chunlan:

Sun Chunlan, female, Han ethnicity, was born in May 1950 and is from Raoyang, Hebei Province. She began her first job in November 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in May 1973. She received a graduate education at the Central Party School.

Sun is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Head of its United Front Work Department.

2014- Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Head, United Front Work Department, CPC Central Committee

2012-2014 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee

2012 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Chairperson, Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People's Congress

2010-2012 Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Chairperson, Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People's Congress

2009-2010 Secretary, CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

2005-2009 Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group; Vice Chairperson; and First Member of the Secretariat, All-China Federation of Trade Unions

2001-2005 Deputy Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

Secretary, CPC Dalian Municipal Committee

Attended an in-service graduate program in political science for provincial- and ministerial-level officials through Correspondence School of the Central Party School (2000-2003)

2001 Deputy Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

President, Party School of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

Secretary, CPC Dalian Municipal Committee

1998-2001 Deputy Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

President, Party School of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

1997-1998 Deputy Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

1995-1997 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

Chairperson and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, Liaoning Provincial Federation of Trade Unions

Attended an in-service graduate program in decision making and management at Liaoning University (1992-1995)

1994-1995 Chairperson and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, Liaoning Provincial Federation of Trade Unions

1993-1994 Chairperson and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, Liaoning Provincial Women's Federation

1991-1993 Vice Chairperson, Liaoning Provincial Federation of Trade Unions

Took a one-year training course for young and middle-aged officials at the Central Party School (1992-1993)

Attended an undergraduate correspondence program in economic management at Party School of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee (1989-1991)

1988-1991 Director, Anshan Municipal Women's Federation, Liaoning Province

1986-1988 Secretary, Party Committee of the Anshan Chemical Fiber Wool Textile Factory, Liaoning Province

1985-1986 Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director, Anshan Chemical Fiber Wool Textile Factory, Liaoning Province (in charge of the Party Committee's work, Feb-Nov 1986)

1980-1985 Deputy Director, Anshan Chemical Fiber Wool Textile Factory, Liaoning Province

Attended a correspondence program in economic management at Department of Economics, Liaoning University (1981-1984)

1979-1980 Member of the Party Committee's Standing Committee and Deputy Director of the Political Section (person in charge), Anshan Chemical Fiber Wool Textile Factory, Liaoning Province

1977-1979 Member, Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Anshan Chemical Fiber Wool Textile Factory, Liaoning Province

1975-1977 Member of the Party Committee's Standing Committee and Secretary of the CYL Committee, Anshan Municipal Light Industry Textile Bureau, Liaoning Province

1974-1975 Member of the Party Committee's Standing Committee and Secretary of the CYL Committee, Anshan Municipal First Light Industry Bureau, Liaoning Province

1969-1974 Worker; member of a workshop Party branch; head of the CYL Committee; and member of the Party Committee, Anshan Watch Factory, Liaoning Province

1965-1969 Studied machinery at Anshan Industrial Technology School, Liaoning Province

Alternate member, 15th and 16th CPC Central Committees

Member, 17th through 19th CPC Central Committees

Member, Political Bureau, 18th and 19th CPC Central Committees