Sun Zhengcai

Sun Zhengcai (Traditional Chinese: 孫政才; Simplified Chinese: 孙政才; Hanyu Pinyin: Sūn Zhèngcái) is the current Minister of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China. He was born in September, 1963 in Wendeng city of Shandong province. In July of 1988, he joined the Communist Party of China. He has been a researcher of agricultural science in Beijing, and held many political positions in the Beijing region. In February of 2002, he became the Party Secretary of the Shunyi District outside of Beijing. In December, 2006, the 25th plenary session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress appointed him to his current position as head of the Ministry of Agriculture.^[1] He is a member of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.