Chen was appointed acting Mayor in 20 November 2011 following the resignation of Wan Qingliang.
In 2008, he was Vice Governor of Guangdong Province and was part of a group working to convert the Pearl River Delta region into a "core region of modern manufacturing" to replace older factories that had been closing.
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