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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Sun.

Sun Jinfang (simplified Chinese: 孙晋芳; traditional Chinese: 孫晉芳; pinyin: Sūn Jìnfāng; born 6 April 1955) is a former female Chinese volleyball player. She was the setter and the captain of China Women’s National Volleyball Team between 1977-1982. After retirement, Sun served as deputy director of Jiangsu Sports Committee, director of China Sports Lottery Management Center, director of China's Tennis Administrative Center and deputy director of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health between 1983-2018.

Early life
On April 6, 1955, Sun was born in Suzhou in a railway worker’s family.

In high school, she won the first prize of high jump in the school sports competition. Then she was chosen by a coach to practice volleyball in Suzhou Amateur Sports School in 1971.

Career
In 1971, Sun became a member of Jiangsu Women’s Volleyball Team. She was carefully guided by a famous coach named Bu Qingxia (simplified Chinese: 卜庆霞; traditional Chinese: 卜慶霞; pinyin: Bo Qìngxiá). With rapid volleyball technological progress, Sun soon became the main setter of the Jiangsu team.

In 1976, when China Women’s National Volleyball Team was reorganized, Sun was selected into the national team as the captain.

She was part of the Chinese national team that won the fourth place at the 1977 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup.

She, along with her teammates, finished sixth at the 1978 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship.

She was part of the silver-winning team at the 1978 Asian Games.

She was a member of the Chinese national team that won the gold medal at the 1979 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.

She won the gold medal at the 1981 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup with her national team, being awarded “Best Setter”, “Most Valuable Player” and “Best Player”.

She was part of the Chinese national team that won gold both at the 1982 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship and the 1982 Asian Games.

Sun announced her retirement as a professional volleyball player in 1983 when she was twenty-seven years old.

Team awards
1977 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup - Fourth place

1978 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship - Sixth place

1978 Asian Games: Volleyball - Silver medal

1979 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship - Gold medal

1981 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup - Gold medal

1982 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship - Gold medal

1982 Asian Games: Volleyball - Gold medal

Individual awards
1981 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup “Best Setter”

1981 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup “Most Valuable Player”

1981 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Cup “Best Player”

1982 One of the “Top Ten Athletes of China Sports”

1983 “Sports Honor” awarded by Physical Culture and Sports Commission of China

1984 “One of the Outstanding Athletes in the Thirty-Five Years Since the Founding of China” awarded by Physical Culture and Sports Commission of China

Political life
Sun began her political career from 1983 to 2018 after retirement.

In 1984, she returned to Jiangsu and became deputy director of Jiangsu Sports Committee after learning and recharging. During her tenure in Jiangsu, Sun founded Jiangsu Local Sports Lottery and created a record that the sales of sports lottery ranked first in the whole nation.

In 2000, Sun was transferred to Beijing and became director of China Sports Lottery Center because of her outstanding achievements in charge of Jiangsu Sports Lottery. After taking office, Sun carried out a series of reforms and innovations. In 2001, the sales amount of China Sports Lottery occupied nearly 80% of the lottery market, exceeding the sum of the sales amount in the previous seven years.

In 2003, Sun was appointed director of China's Tennis Sports Administrative Center. During the tenure, she solved the problem of insufficient training funds for the national tennis team and introduced the international tennis tournament system into China.

In 2014, Sun returned to Jiangsu to assist the Youth Olympic Games.

After the Youth Olympic Games, she went to the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress and served as deputy director of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health. In the same year, she served as Secretary of the Party Group of Jiangsu Sports Bureau.