 In March 2007, Yi Junqing was appointed as the Director of the Propaganda Department of the Heilongjiang party organization, a position he held until February 2010.A month later, he was elected as a member of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Standing Committee, joining the elite political ranks of the province.In February 2010, he was promoted to become the Director of Compilation and Translation Bureau, an organization under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.