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Wang Qishan

Xinhua News Agency, November 15, 2012 Adjust font size:

 

Wang Qishan is elected as member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Nov. 15, 2012. [Xinhua]

The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Qishan:

Wang Qishan, born in July 1948, is a male ethnic Han from Tianzhen, Shanxi Province. He entered workforce in January 1969 and joined the CPC in February 1983. He graduated from the University Regular Class at the Department of History at Northwest University, China, with a major in history. He is a senior economist.

He is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, vice premier of the State Council and member of its Leading Party Members, Group.

1969-1971 Educated youth, Fengzhuang Commune, Yan'an County, Shaanxi Province

1971-1973 Worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum

1973-1976 Student of history, Department of History, Northwest University, China

1976-1979 Worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum

1979-1982 Intern researcher, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1982-1986 Section chief and research fellow at the deputy bureau level, Rural Policy Research Office, Secretariat, CPC Central Committee; and deputy director, Liaison Office, Rural Development Research Center, State Council

1986-1988 Research fellow at the bureau level, Rural Policy Research Office, Secretariat, CPC Central Committee; director, Liaison Office, Rural Development Research Center, State Council; director, National Office for Pilot Areas of Rural Reform; acting director and director, Development Institute, Rural Development Research Center, State Council

1988-1989 General manager; and secretary, Party Committee; of China Rural Trust and Investment Corporation

1989-1993 Vice governor; and member, Leading Party Members' Group; of People's Construction Bank of China (09/1992 - 11/1992: student, Further Studies Class for Provincial- and Ministerial-level Cadres, Central Party School)

1993-1994 Vice governor; and member, Leading Party Members' Group; of People's Bank of China

1994-1996 Governor; and secretary, Leading Party Members' Group; of People's Construction Bank of China

1996-1997 Governor; and secretary, Leading Party Members' Group; of China Construction Bank

1997-1998 Member, Standing Committee, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee

1998-2000 Member, Standing Committee, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee; vice governor, Guangdong Province

2000-2002 Director; and secretary, Leading Party Members' Group; of the Office for Economic Restructuring of the State Council

2002-2003 Secretary, CPC Hainan Provincial Committee; chairman, Standing Committee, Hainan Provincial People's Congress

2003-2004 Deputy secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee; acting mayor, Beijing; executive chairman; and deputy secretary, Leading Party Members' Group; of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

2004-2007 Deputy secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee; mayor, Beijing; executive chairman; and deputy secretary, Leading Party Members' Group; of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

2007-2008 Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee

2008-2011 Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee; vice premier; and member, Leading Party Members' Group; of the State Council; chairman, Organizing Committee for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo

2011-2012 Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee; vice premier; and member, Leading Party Members' Group; of the State Council

2012- Member, Standing Committee, Political Bureau; secretary, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; vice premier; and member, Leading Party Members' Group; of the State Council

Alternate member, Fifteenth CPC Central Committee; member, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth CPC Central Committees; member, Political Bureau, Seventeenth CPC Central Committee; member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, Eighteenth CPC Central Committee; member, Standing Committee member and secretary, Eighteenth Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

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