The Zeng family is a Chinese political family of Hakka background from Ji'an, Jiangxi province, related to Zeng Shan, a Chinese Communist revolutionary, military commander who served as Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Republic government, and later a security minister under Mao Zedong; and his wife Deng Liujin, one of the few women who participated in the Long March and later ran a school for the children of high cadres. The Zeng family backed Mao Zedong in the Jiangxi Soviet confrontation against Li Lisan and in the Chinese civil war. Their immediate family has held senior positions in Chinese politics since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 2002, Zeng Shan's son, Zeng Qinghong, was appointed First Secretary of Central Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party, and in 200