Shi Jintong
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Shi Jintong (Chinese: 施金通; pinyin: Shī Jīntōng; born May 1979) is a Chinese politician
of Miao ethnicity, currently serving as deputy townhead of Shuanglong Town and party secretary of Shibadong Village.
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.
Biography
A native of the Shibadong Village of Shuanglong Town in Huayuan County, Hunan, Shi joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 2001, and was proposed as director of his home-village in August 2005 and rose to become deputy townhead of his home-town in May 2017.
Shi is a supporter of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CCP Central Committee, who inspected the village to propose the policy of "Targeted Poverty Alleviation" for the first time. Shibadong Village became a testing ground for the new initiative in since Xi's investigation.