Sun Jiazheng, male, Han nationality, is a native of Siyang, Jiangsu Province. He was born in 1944, joined the CPC in 1966 and graduated from Nanjing University.
All of Sun's provincial experience was in Jiangsu province, his birth place. In the mid-1980's Sun held Party positions in the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee. In 1989 he became head of its publicity department and in 1994 he moved to Beijing to become minister of Radio, Film and Television. In 1998 he became minister of Culture.
Sun Jiazheng was an alternate member of the 12th-14th CPC Central Committees, and member of the 15th-16th CPC Central Committees. He is now Vice-Chairman of the 11th National Committee of the CPPCC.