Jenny Shipley

Jenny Shipley, the 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand and also the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand. Jenny Shipley served as the leader of the National Party until December 2001. After retiring from politics, she ran her own consulting company and served as a consultant for several companies, while also participating in the business of other companies. Jenny Shipley has been a member of the New Zealand National Party since 1975 and has been serving as a leader at the grassroots level for a long time. She has done many practical things for the local community. In 1987, she was successfully elected as a councilor for the Ashenburg constituency. After being elected as a member of parliament, Shipley was appointed as the Minister of Social Welfare and spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in the shadow cabinet of the National Party. During her tenure, she actively solved many important issues for women. Hippley quickly rose to prominence in the shadow cabinet due to his outstanding work performance, and the unnoticed frontline legislator was quickly promoted to the 11th position in the ruling National Party. Jenny Shipley served as Minister of Social Welfare and Minister of Women's Affairs after the victory of the New Zealand National Party led by James Brendan Borg in the 1990 election, and as Minister of Health in 1993. During her tenure, she was a controversial figure, with numerous measures such as cutting social welfare and reforming the healthcare system causing controversy. With increasing dissatisfaction within the National Party with its leader James Borg, Jeanne Shipley successfully gained the support of most party members during her overseas visit in December 1997, forcing James Borg to resign and succeeding him as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Although she led New Zealand through the controversial parliamentary election crisis and the Asian economic crisis during her tenure as Prime Minister, and achieved an economic growth rate of 4%, laying the foundation for later New Zealand's economic success. But Jenny Shipley's government is still a very unstable one. Especially during this period, the relationship between the National Party and its coalition partner, the New Zealand Priority Party, continued to deteriorate. On August 14, 1998, Winston Peters, the leader of the New Zealand Priority Party, was ultimately excluded from the government cabinet, marking the end of cooperation between the two parties. The rupture of the alliance has also caused trouble for the priority party. Party leader Winston Peters, with the support of more than half of his party's lawmakers, stopped supporting the Jeanne Shipley government. However, there are still many priority party members who have withdrawn from political parties and become independent legislators, or are attempting to form their own political parties. Jenny Shipley never followed half of the members of the Priority Party and successfully obtained enough votes to maintain the National Party government. Jenny Shipley served as the leader of the National Party until December 2001, when Bill Ingley took over his position. Jenny Shipley retired from Congress and officially withdrew from the political stage. After retiring from politics, she ran her own consulting company and served as a consultant for several companies. She also participated in the business of other companies, helping New Zealand education institutions and private companies improve their performance and open up international markets. She has made several business visits to China, making outstanding contributions to the economic, tourism, and commercial cooperation between China and New Zealand. On March 29, 2015, Jenny Shipley became a member of the Boao Forum for Asia.