Zeng Yixin

Zeng Yixin (Chinese: 曾益新; pinyin: Zēng Yìxīn; born October 1962) is a Chinese oncologist and politician, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.^[1][2]

Zeng was born in Lianyuan County (now Lianyuan), Hunan, in October 1962, but was raised in Huitong County.^[3] Zeng joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1984.^[3] In 1985, he graduated from Hengyang Medical College(now University of South China), and went on to receive his doctor's degree in medicine from Zhongshan Medical Sciences University (now Sun Yat-sen University) in 1990.^[3] In July 1990, he became an attending doctor at the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital.^[3] He carried out postdoctoral research at Tokyo Institute for the Elderly and the University of Tokyo in July 1992, and became a research assistant at the Hughes Institute of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in January 1995.^[3]

Zeng returned to China in 1997 and that same yearbecame deputy director and director of the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in March, in addition to serving as director of Cancer Research Institute and president of Cancer Hospital.^[3]

In August 2010, he became vice president of Peking Union Medical College, rising to president the next year.^[3] In November 2015, he was made president of Beijing Hospital, a post he kept until February 2017. He was appointed deputy director of the National Health Commission in February 2017, concurrently serving as deputy director of the Central Health Committee.^[3]

• 2005 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)