Mr. Xu Lejiang, one of the distinguished alumni of JXUST, was appointed as Deputy-head of the the United Front Work Department, an agency under the command of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Xu Lejiang has served as the Chairman of Baosteel Group, a Global Fortune 500 company based in Shanghai, China. He has been an alternate member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China since 2007. In 1982, Xu graduated from the Jiangxi Institute of Metallurgy, now known as Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, and majored in Metallurgy Machinery.