One will be promoted to deputy division, China's first post-90s Olympic champion, whose record will never be surpassed
He was a two-time Olympic weightlifting champion in Beijing and Rio, and this Olympic hero was recently appointed as a fourth-level researcher and a department-level cadre of the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau.
The author learned that the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau issued a document this month: "All departments and offices of the organ, all units directly under the Bureau: the Party Group of the Economic Bureau has studied and agreed: Comrade Long Qingquan is the fourth-level researcher of the Youth Sports Department of the Provincial Sports Bureau. The length of service is calculated from the date of expiration of the probationary period. “
There is an unwritten rule in Chinese sports that athletes who have won two Olympic champions or three National Games champions can work directly through department-level cadres after retirement. The promotion to the fourth-level researcher is the first step that Long Qingquan climbed after taking up the job.
The fourth-level investigator is one of the ranks of civil servants in the comprehensive management category, and the rank sequence of civil servants in the comprehensive management category is divided into: first-level inspector, second-level inspector, first-level investigator, second-level investigator, third-level researcher, fourth-level researcher, first-level chief clerk, second-level chief clerk, third-level chief clerk, fourth-level chief clerk, first-level clerk, and second-level clerk. The third-level and fourth-level investigators are all cadres at the deputy department level and belong to non-leadership positions.
Long Qingquan is an iconic figure in the history of Chinese weightlifting. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Long Qingquan, who was not yet 18 years old, won the men's 56kg championship, becoming the first Chinese post-90s athlete to win the Olympic championship. At the 2009 World Championships, he won two gold medals in the clean and jerk and overall in this category. In 2016, Long Qingquan competed in the Olympic Games again after 8 years, and he won the men's weightlifting 56kg championship at the Rio Olympics, of which the total score of 307kg broke the world record. In 2018, the International Weightlifting Federation adopted a new weightlifting class, and the record set by Long Qingquan became a world record that can never be broken. Long Qingquan's outstanding performance in the Rio Olympics won the 2016 China Top Ten Laureus Champion Award for Best Breakthrough at the end of that year, and also won the nomination award for the 2016 CCTV Sports Person of the Year Best Male Athlete Award.
It is worth mentioning that Xiong Ni, the current head of the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau, is also an Olympic champion, and he serves as the secretary of the party group of the bureau and presides over the overall work. Zhang Lianbiao, deputy director of the bureau, was one of Asia's top male javelin throwers during his career.