Xu Zongheng's father is a worker in the railway machine repair shop of Hengyang Railway Bureau, and his mother is a staff member of Hengjili Neighborhood Committee.
According to Xu Zongheng's matriarchal relatives, Xu Zongheng is the only boy in the family, ranking fourth, with three sisters in the world and one sister in the next.
Xu Zongheng has always been the top student in his class since he was a child, and he is rated as "three good students" every year.
1972, Xu Zongheng and Li Chaohua were sent to Baogai Township, Hengnan County, Hengyang City as "educated youth". Here, Xu Zongheng's eloquence has been well exercised. Sometimes, he will give a speech in front of more than 100 people in the farm class of Baogai Town, Hengnan County. With body language, the following Li Chaohua can feel "very excited" every time.
Xu Zongheng quickly emerged among the "educated youth" and eventually became the only "educated youth" who joined the Party on the farm at that time.
Opportunity beckoned to him.
From 65438 to 0974, under the recommendation of Baogai Town Farm, Xu Zongheng entered the then Hunan Communications School (now Hunan Communications Vocational and Technical College) to study automobiles. 1In August, 1976, Xu Zongheng graduated from Hunan Communications School, and was assigned to Hengyang Auto Repair Shop as a technician at the age of 2/kloc-0.
However, in the garage technology department, fate gave Xu Zongheng a chance to enter the official career.
At that time, a leader of the Hunan Provincial Economic Commission went to Hengyang garage to "concentrate on industrial study" and asked Hengyang garage to recommend young people when selecting teams. At that time, the director of the "Revolutionary Committee" in the garage recommended Xu Zongheng, a technical secondary school student who graduated not long ago.
At this time, the Hengyang Economic Commission is also organizing the "Industrial Daqing" team, and dispatching personnel from Hengyang Labor Bureau, Hengyang Public Security Bureau and other departments. Most of them are elderly people, but there are basically no middle-aged people. Xu Zongheng just met the requirements, so he was seconded to Hengyang Economic Commission.
After more than a year's secondment, Xu Zongheng and his boss at that time, a leader of Hengyang Economic Commission, joined the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee.
A leader of Hengyang Economic Commission was transferred to the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee as a deputy minister, and his subordinate Xu Zongheng was transferred to the organization department as a clerk.
In the following 24 years, Xu Zongheng worked in the organizational system for nearly 18 years until he became the executive vice mayor and mayor of Shenzhen. After entering the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee, Xu Zongheng became a "rich official".
Xu Zongheng rose from an ordinary director of Hengyang Municipal Party Committee Organization Department to the vice minister of Hengyang Municipal Party Committee Organization Department.
Shan ying, then the executive vice minister of the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee, began to select new vice ministers before retiring. Hongshan recommended Xu Zongheng as his deputy minister.
Later, another leader of Hengyang recommended Xu Zongheng to the Organization Department of Hunan Provincial Committee to take over the post of Director of Organization Department of Hengyang Municipal Committee. Although there were voices of opposition at that time, Xu Zongheng eventually became the director of the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee, the member of the Standing Committee of Hengyang Municipal Committee and the director of the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee, which once caused quite a shock in Hengyang officialdom-at the age of 35, he became the youngest CPC leader in Hunan Province. Xu Zongheng has a successful career in Hengyang, with unlimited official career. Why 1993 did he suddenly go south to Shenzhen? What is even more suspicious is that the position of the Standing Committee of Hengyang Municipal Committee and the Organization Minister of Hengyang Municipal Committee is the real deputy department level, while the subsequent director of the cadre training department of the Organization Department of Shenzhen Municipal Committee is only the official department level, which is equivalent to demotion.
Xu Zongheng's choice to leave Hengyang may be related to three reasons: First, he offended many people in the arrangement of leading cadres; The second is that he is too young, too junior and dissatisfied; Third, the campaign for executive vice mayor was frustrated.
At that time, Hengyang city merged with the city, and the two teams merged, involving a large number of personnel arrangements, and the organization department of Hengyang Municipal Committee became the key department of personnel arrangements. An old colleague asked him to arrange personnel, but he didn't help and offended many people. They felt uncomfortable. Xu Zongheng also felt uncomfortable staying in Hengyang.
Later, the Hengyang Municipal People's Government elected the executive vice mayor, but Xu Zongheng was not nominated as a member of Hengyang Municipal Committee. Without nomination, he went to the event himself and wanted to be the deputy mayor. As a result, he was criticized. It is against the party discipline that Hengyang Municipal Committee does not nominate itself to do it.
The key event that prompted Xu Zongheng to go south: After the change of leadership in Hengyang, the superior wanted to send "too ostentatious" Xu Zongheng to a county to be the county party secretary, but Xu Zongheng didn't want to go. The original saying is that if you want to be promoted, you must first exercise in the county.
Xu Zongheng's career in Hengyang was blocked. Makes him very lonely. Later, some leaders recommended me to go to Shenzhen.
1993 In the severe winter, Xu Zongheng came to Shenzhen as the director of the cadre training department of the Organization Department of Shenzhen Municipal Committee, and his career turned a new page.
In 2005, Xu Zongheng became the mayor of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government.