Hoàng Lan Mai

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Premier
Hoàng Lan Mai
皇蘭梅
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Mai in 2021
Premier of Nainan
Assumed office
7 January 2023
Preceded byQuách An Tương
General Secretary of the Nainan People's Solidarity and Longevity
Assumed office
11 January 2018
Preceded byTrầm Bá Cường
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
4 July 2015 – 11 January 2018
Preceded byVĩnh Quang Đông
Succeeded byTrần Hữu Thống
Provincial Premier of Ảnh Lửa Province
In office
20 October 1986 – 30 October 2000
Preceded byĐặng Phụng Việt
Succeeded byVõ Tuyết Mai
Personal details
Born12 October 1956 (Age 66)
Canhdong, Nainan
Political partyNainan People's Solidarity and Longevity
SpouseNguyễn Gia Huy (m. 1990)
Children2
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RelativesHoàng Lan Trúc (older brother)
Alma materNational 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

Photo of young Mai at her father's summer home, late 1960s

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."

Career

Regional Premier of Ảnh Lửa Province

Hiatus

Mai with Pan Jiayong during a visit to Heijiang in 2016

Deputy Foreign Minister

NPSL General Secretary and Premiership

Personal life

Mai's brother, Trúc