CHEN Ying, Han ethnicity, is a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC). She enrolled in the 2023 Spring Social Work undergraduate programme at Huaibei Open University. She currently serves as a staff member at the Rural Revitalisation Workstation in Liuqiao Town, Suixi County, Huaibei City, Anhui Province, and as Deputy General Manager of Huaibei Xiangshan District Rural Revitalisation Investment Co., Ltd. Her honours include National Outstanding Individual in Poverty Alleviation, National Exemplary Individual, and Anhui Provincial May 1st Labour Medal.

In 2011, CHEN resigned from her corporate job and returned to Xiaocheng Village in her hometown of Liuqiao Town, becoming an ordinary village cadre. Her exceptional work ethic soon caught attention, leading to her appointment as Deputy Director of the Liuqiao Town Poverty Alleviation Workstation. CHEN Ying still remembers the challenges she faced when she first arrived at the poverty alleviation workstation in Liuqiao Town back in 2016. Villages had no distinctive industries, few talented individuals to lead development, and limited paths to prosperity.

What followed was years of hands-on work: leveraging professional expertise, developing clear strategies, and exploring innovative approaches tailored to local conditions. CHEN helped villages build distinctive industries, promoted a "One Town, One Brand" model, and strengthened collective village economies—all while ensuring that the hard-won gains in poverty alleviation were consolidated.

Over 15 years, CHEN's positions and roles have changed, but her connection to the grassroots has remained constant. Since being elected as an NPC deputy, she has submitted nine suggestions covering rural revitalisation, social security, and business environment, with several receiving attention and responses from relevant national departments.

CHEN remains deeply rooted in the frontline, transforming the people's pressing concerns into motivation for fulfilling her duties. At this year's National Two Sessions, she continues to focus on livelihood and development, bringing three suggestions: optimising grain circulation policies and measures, promoting the application of copper-aluminium composite materials, and accelerating preliminary work on the Huaibei-Yongcheng high-speed rail link.

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Published: 13 March 2026