Lan Fo'an

15th Minister of FinanceAssumed office
24 October 2023PremierLi QiangPreceded byLiu KunCommunist Party Secretary of the Ministry of FinanceAssumed office
28 September 2023Preceded byLiu KunCommunist Party Secretary of ShanxiIn office
29 December 2022 – 28 September 2023GovernorJin XiangjunPreceded byLin WuSucceeded byTang DengjieGovernor of ShanxiIn office
4 June 2021 – 29 December 2022Party SecretaryLin WuPreceded byLin WuSucceeded byJin Xiangjun Personal detailsBornJune 1962 (age 61)
Huidong County, Guangdong, ChinaPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materZhongnan University of Economics and Law
South China University of TechnologyChinese nameSimplified Chinese蓝佛安Traditional Chinese藍佛安

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lán Fó'ān

Lan Fo'an (Chinese: 蓝佛安; born June 1962) is a Chinese politician who is currently serving as the Minister of Finance and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. He previously served as the CCP Secretary of Shanxi province.

Early life

Lan was born in Huidong County, Guangdong, in June 1962. After graduating from Hubei College of Finance and Economics (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) in 1985, he was dispatched to the Ministry of Finance.

Political career

Beginning in November 1988, he served in several posts in the Guangdong Provincial Finance Department, including section member, principal staff member, and director. In March 1999, he was appointed vice mayor of Dongguan, a city in Guangdong, but held the position for only two-and-a-half years. He then moved back to the Guangdong Provincial Finance Department and was appointed its deputy head. In April 2007, he was promoted to party branch secretary of Guangdong Provincial Audit Department, concurrently holding the head position since March 2008. In March 2015, he was appointed as party secretary of Shaoguan, another Guangdong city, making him the top political leader there. He was promoted to vice governor of Guangdong in January 2016.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2017, he was transferred to the neighboring Hainan province, and he was appointed secretary of its Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Party's agency in charge of anti-corruption efforts. He also served as director of the Hainan Provincial Supervisory Commission. He became a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Hainan Provincial Committee.^[1]

He served as a delegate to the 19th CCP National Congress in October 2017. From 2017 to 2022, he was a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was also a member of the 13th National People's Congress from 2018 to 2023. In April 2021, he was transferred to north China's Shanxi province and appointed deputy party secretary.^[2] On June 4, he was named acting governor of Shanxi, replacing Lin Wu.^[3]

In October 2022, he was elected as a member of the CCP Central Committee at the 20th CCP National Congress. In December 2022, he was appointed secretary of the CCP Committee of Shanxi province.^[4] He stepped down from the post on 28 September 2023.^{[citation needed]}

On 28 September 2023, he was appointed as the CCP committee secretary of the Ministry of Finance.^[5] On 24 October, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance.^[6]

References

Party political offices
Preceded by Zheng Zhentao	Communist Party Secretary of Shaoguan 2015–2016	Succeeded by Jiang Ling
Preceded by Ma Yongxia	Secretary of Hainan Commission for Discipline Inspection 2017–2021	Succeeded by Chen Guomeng
Preceded by Lin Wu	Specifically-designated Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Shanxi 2021	Succeeded by Shang Liguang
	Communist Party Secretary of Shanxi 2022–2023	Vacant
Preceded by Liu Kun	Communist Party Secretary of the Ministry of Finance 2023–present	Incumbent
Government offices
Preceded by Zeng Shouxi (曾寿喜)	Head of Guangdong Provincial Audit Office 2008–2015	Succeeded by He Lijuan (何丽娟)
New title	Director of the Hainan Provincial Supervisory Commission 2018–2021	Succeeded by Chen Guomeng [zh]
Preceded by Lin Wu	Governor of Shanxi 2021–2022	Succeeded by Jin Xiangjun