Huang Runqiu

Huang was born in Changsha, Hunan, in August 1963. After high school, he studied, then taught, at what is now Chengdu University of Technology, becoming its vice-president and director of the State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection in November 2001. In December 2007, he was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiusan Society. In January 2018, he was appointed vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). In January 2014, he was appointed vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan People's Congress, he remained in that position until March 2016, when he was transferred to Beijing and appointed vice minister of Environmental Protection, which was reshuffled as the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in March 2018.[4] On April 29, 2020, he was elevated to minister of Ecology and Environment, replacing Li Ganjie. He concurrently serves as vice-president of Jiusan Society since December 2017.

He was a member of the 9th, 10th, 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a delegate to the 12th National People's Congress. In 2018, he was elected a member of the 13th Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.