List of Famous people born in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Xi Xiaoming
Xi Xiaoming is a disgraced Chinese judge, who served as Vice President of the Supreme People's Court, the top court and a fourth-ranked judge in China, between June 2004 and July 2015. In July 2015, he was abruptly removed from office by the Communist Party's top disciplinary body, suspected of corruption.
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo is a Chinese-Taiwanese-American neuroscientist. He is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and the Founding Director of the Shanghai-based Institute of Neuroscience (ION) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2016 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience for his pioneering work on synaptic plasticity. At ION, Poo led a team of scientists that produced the world's first truly cloned primates, a pair of crab-eating macaques called Zhongzhong and Huahua in 2017, using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
Yang Weize
Yang Weize is a former Chinese politician. He was the Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as the party chief in the neighbouring city of Wuxi for seven years, and before that the Mayor of Suzhou. In 2015, Yang was put under investigation for corruption by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. He was tried and convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison in December 2016.
Lijia Zhang
Lijia Zhang is a Chinese writer, journalist and public speaker. She describes herself as a communicator between China and the world and has given talks at conferences about contemporary China. She has given lectures at Stanford University, Harvard University, and the University of Sydney.
Huang Tingting
Huang Tingting is a Chinese idol singer. She is a member of Team NII of Chinese idol group SNH48, of which she served as vice-captain from February 13, 2015 to December 22, 2017.
Wang Maolin
Wang Maolin is a Chinese politician. He was born in Qidong, Jiangsu. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1956. He was mayor (1982–1985) and Communist Party Secretary (1985–1987) of Taiyuan. He was Communist Party Secretary (1991–1993) and CPPCC Committee Chairman (1993) of Shanxi. He was Communist Party Secretary (1993–1999) and People's Congress Chairman (1998) of Hunan.
Zuoxiao Zuzhou
Zuoxiao Zuzhou, real name Wu Hongjin, (吴红巾), is a Chinese musician and artist.
Chen Hao
Chen Hao is a politician of the People's Republic of China, serving since 2016 as Communist Party Secretary of Yunnan province. He was formerly Governor of Yunnan and vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
Christine Tsung
Christine Tsung is a Taiwanese business executive and politician.