Career
Between 2013 and 2014 she served as the Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Jinzhong, a prefecture-level city in Shanxi. In August 2014, she was put under investigation by the Communist Party"s anti-corruption agency, then she was removed from office and expelled from the party in November 2014. Chinese media reported that she had close relations with Jin Daoming, who is the former Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Zhang was born and raised in Shanyin County, Shanxi.
She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Shanxi University in 2007. In March 2000 Zhang was transferred to Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, and she worked in Shanxi Provincial Commission for Discipline and Shanxi Provincial Inspection and Supervision Bureau.
She was promoted to director in August 2002. In April 2013, she was appointed the Deputy cost per click Party Chief of Jinzhong, she remained in that position until November 2014, when she was removed from office and expelled from the party for "took advantage of her post to seek profits for others, accepted a huge amount of money and property.
And adultery.".