The sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) closed on the afternoon of 24 October at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The meeting decided to appoint Lan Fo'an as Minister of Finance, who had previously held the post of Party Secretary of the Ministry of Finance.
Lan Fo'an is an alumnus of the Zhongnan University of Finance and Law, being enrolled in 1981 in the finance programme.
According to public information, Lan Fo'an, male, Han nationality, born in June 1962, Guangdong Huidong people, from September 1981 to August 1985, in Hubei Finance and Economics College (now the Zhongnan University of Finance and Law), majoring in finance, participated in the work in August 1985, in April 1985 to join the Communist Party of China, a university degree, a master's degree in management, and a member of the nineteenth Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCCPC, the twentieth Central Committee of the CCCPC. He is a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and a member of the 20th Central Committee.
Lan Fo'an was deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, party secretary and director of the Guangdong Provincial Audit Office, and secretary of the Shaoguan Municipal Committee of Guangdong Province, was promoted to vice-governor of Guangdong Province in January 2016, was transferred across provinces to serve as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection of Hainan in March 2017, and was again transferred across provinces to serve as deputy party secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee in April 2021, and was appointed in June 2021 to serve as Shanxi Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Shanxi Province in June 2021, and Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee in December 2022.
On the morning of 28 September 2023, Xinhua News Agency released the news that the CPC Central Committee decided that Comrade Lan Fo'an would no longer serve as secretary, standing committee member and member of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and would be appointed to another position. In the afternoon of the same day, the relevant responsible comrade of the Central Organisation Department attended the meeting of the leading cadres of the Ministry of Finance to announce the decision of the Central Committee: Comrade Lan Fo'an has been appointed as Secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Finance.
At present, Lan Fo’an is the general secretary of the Party Group and Minister of Finance.