​This March, fifty-nine year-old Zhang Yuqing has embarked on his second five-year term as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference or CPPCC—China’s top political advisory body. Also a professor and university president, Zhang has worked in the educational sector and the underdeveloped Jiangxi Province in central China for decades. Since he first became a national political advisor in 2018, he has drawn on his rich experience and expertise to make a series of proposals about educational reform and rural development.