Tianjin ushered in the second scholar-type deputy secretary of the municipal party committee.Yin Hejun, an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee, served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor for one and a half years. His career further went on to serve as the deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, taking over the vacancy left by Huai Jinpeng after he transferred to the China Association for Science and Technology.

According to news from Tianjin Beifang.com on October 17, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved Yin Hejun as a member of the Tianjin Municipal Committee, Standing Committee, and Deputy Secretary.

Tianjin's two consecutive deputy secretaries of the Municipal Party Committee are all scholar officials.Yin Hejun has long been engaged in research in the fields of electromagnetic field theory and microwave technology, microwave devices and technology, and microwave remote sensing technology, and enjoys special government subsidies.Huai Jinpeng is an expert in computer software. He has won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award and the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He was the president of Beihang University for nearly six years.

The current member of the Standing Committee of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee also has a scholar-type official—Zhang Yuzhuo, Secretary of the Binhai New Area Party Committee.Zhang Yuzhuo is an expert in clean coal technology and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011.

55-year-old Yin Hejun (born in January 1963) is a native of Gujiao, Shanxi Province. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Secretary for Development.In January 2008, the 45-year-old Yin Hejun was promoted to vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and became a deputy ministerial cadre; in November 2015, he started his official career as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology.Elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, four people have successively served as deputy secretaries of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, and the first three have been promoted to positions above the provincial and ministerial level.He Lifeng, who held this post from 2009 to 2013, concurrently served as Secretary of the Working Committee of Binhai New Area, and is currently the Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the National Development and Reform Commission; Wang Dongfeng, who held this post from 2013 to 2016, is currently Secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee; at the end of 2016, he began to serve as TianjinHuai Jinpeng, the deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee for less than nine months, is currently the party secretary, executive vice chairman, and first secretary of the Secretariat of the China Association for Science and Technology.

Since 2018, nine full-time deputy secretaries of provincial party committees have assumed new positions, including Yin Hejun from Tianjin, Zhao Yide from Hebei, Yang Dongqi from Shandong, Yu Hongqiu from Henan, He Rong from Shaanxi, Zheng Zhajie from Zhejiang, Li Bingjun from Jiangxi,Ma Guoqiang from Hubei and Wang Ning from Fujian.

All nine of them are born in the 60s, and six of them have both central and local working experience: Yin Hejun was the vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Yu Hongqiu was the head of the Discipline Inspection Team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and He Rong was the vice president of the Supreme Court.Zheng Zhajie served as deputy director of the National Energy Administration and deputy director of the Central Taiwan Affairs Office, Li Bingjun served as deputy ministerial secretary of the State Council, and Wang Ning served as deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.Among the other three, Zhao Yide and Yang Dongqi have worked in Zhejiang and Heilongjiang respectively for a long time. Ma Guoqiang is a senior executive of a state-owned enterprise and has work experience in Baosteel and Wuhan Iron and Steel.Except for Yang Dongqi, Zheng Zhajie, and Li Bingjun, the other six are alternate members of the 19th Central Committee or members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

At present, there are still vacancies for full-time deputy secretaries of the party committees in seven provinces across the country, including Beijing, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Liaoning, Qinghai, and Guizhou.