Hoàng Lan Mai
Premier Hoàng Lan Mai | |
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皇蘭梅 | |
Premier of Nainan | |
Assumed office 7 January 2023 | |
Preceded by | Quách An Tương |
General Secretary of the Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity | |
Assumed office 11 January 2018 | |
Preceded by | Trầm Bá Cường |
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 4 July 2015 – 11 January 2018 | |
Preceded by | Vĩnh Quang Đông |
Succeeded by | Trần Hữu Thống |
Provincial Premier of Ảnh Lửa Province | |
In office 20 October 1986 – 30 October 2000 | |
Preceded by | Đặng Phụng Việt |
Succeeded by | Võ Tuyết Mai |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 October 1956 (Age 66) Canhdong, Nainan |
Political party | Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity |
Spouse | Nguyễn Gia Huy (m. 1990) |
Children | 2 |
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Relatives | Hoàng Lan Trúc (older brother) |
Alma mater | National University of Canhdong |
- This is a Nainese name; the family name is Hoàng (皇).
Hoàng Lan Mai (Nainese: 皇蘭梅; Born 12 October 1956), is a Nainese politician and stateswoman who has is currently serving as the Premier of Nainan. She is the youngest child of the founder of the Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity and creator of the Harmonious Republic of Nainan, Hoàng Viện Trai. She served in numerous positions in government for nearly 30 years, from 1986 to 2000 she was the Provincial Premier of the Ảnh Lửa Province. From 2015 to 2018 she served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 2018 to now she sits as the General Secretary of the NPSL. In 2023 she became the first female Premier of Nainan.
Early life
Born Hoàng Lan Mai on October 12th, 1956 to Hoàng Viện Trai and his wife Diệp Nhã Cam in Canhdong. She was born the same year her father during the first year of the Nainese Civil War and was initially very distant from her father, who was focused on the progress of the war. She lived much of her early childhood with her mother and her older brother Trúc.
She excelled in school, and by the end of the war became a member of her father's political outreach group for the NPSL alongside her brother. Her father is quoted in being "proud" of his children's political activism.
She became a political leader for NPSL student outreach groups and became a member of the Young Partisans of Nainan when it was founded in 1966. She attented the National University of Canhdong and became the leader of the NPSL there. By the age of 22 she became the leader of the NPSL's Canhdong branch. She became a political symbol for the nation by her father. At a speech in 1970 she said "Me and my brother and all of the younger generations of Nainan are the future of this nation, we will grow into the political leaders. Tự Ý Chí is our path, we will follow it into greatness."