Ren Hua

Ren was born in Yantai, Shandong, in March 1964. In September 1982, she was accepted to Xinjiang University, where she majored in Chinese language and literature. She joined the Communist Party of China in November 1984. She also earned a master's degree in business administration from Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics in December 2012.

After university in July 1986, she was assigned as a cadre to General Office of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and over a period of 20 years worked her way up to the position of Deputy Director. In September 2006, she became head of the Publicity Department of CPC Ürümqi Municipal Committee and chairwoman of Urumqi Federation of Social Sciences. During her term in office, she reported to Li Zhi, who was Ürümqi's Party secretary from 2006 to 2009. She was deputy director and Party branch secretary of the Department of Culture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in March 2013, she concurrently served as deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in August 2017 and vice-chairwoman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in January 2018.[5]

On June 1, 2020, she was put under investigation for alleged "serious violations of discipline and laws" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China.[6] Ren is the fifth senior official to be investigated in 2020. The others are former Fujian vice-governor Zhang Zhinan, former deputy public security minister Sun Lijun, former Hebei vice-governor Zhang He, and former chairman of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation Hu Wenming.[3] On November 30, she had been expelled from the Communist Party of China and removed from public office.[7][8][9][10] On December 16, she was arrested for suspected bribe taking as per a decision made by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.[11]