Wang Qishan is elected vice president of China at the ongoing first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 17, 2018. (Xinhua)
BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Qishan:
Wang Qishan, male, Han ethnicity, was born in July 1948 and is from Tianzhen, Shanxi Province. He began his first job in January 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in February 1983. Wang 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 Vice President of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
2018- Vice President, PRC
2013-2017 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau
Secretary, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
2012-2013 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau
Secretary, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Vice Premier, State Council
Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council
2011-2012 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau
Vice Premier, State Council
Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council
2008-2011 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau
Vice Premier, State Council
Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council
Chairman, Organizing Committee for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
2007-2008 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau
2004-2007 Deputy Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee
Mayor, Beijing
Executive Chairman and Leading Party Members Group Deputy Secretary, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
2003-2004 Deputy Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee
Acting Mayor, Beijing
Executive Chairman and Leading Party Members Group Deputy Secretary, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
2002-2003 Secretary, CPC Hainan Provincial Committee
Chairman, Standing Committee of Hainan Provincial People's Congress
2000-2002 Director and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, the Office for Economic Restructuring of the State Council
1998-2000 Member, Standing Committee of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee
Vice Governor, Guangdong Province
1997-1998 Member, Standing Committee of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee
1996-1997 Governor and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, China Construction Bank
1994-1996 Governor and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, People's Construction Bank of China
1993-1994 Vice Governor and member of Leading Party Members Group, People's Bank of China
1989-1993 Vice Governor and member of Leading Party Members Group, People's Construction Bank of China
Took a continuing studies course for Provincial- and Ministerial-level Cadres, Central Party School (Sep-Nov 1992)
1988-1989 General Manager and Party Committee Secretary of China Rural Trust and Investment Corporation
1986-1988 Research fellow at the bureau level, Rural Policy Research Office, CPC Central Committee Secretariat.
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
1982-1986 Section chief, research fellow at the deputy bureau level and Deputy Director of the Liaison Office, Rural Policy Research Office, CPC Central Committee Secretariat and Rural Development Research Center, State Council
1979-1982 Intern researcher, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
1976-1979 Worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum
1973-1976 Studied history at Department of History, Northwest University, China
1971-1973 Worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum
1969-1971 Educated youth, Fengzhuang Commune, Yan'an County, Shaanxi Province
Alternate member, 15th CPC Central Committee
Member, 16th, 17th and 18th CPC Central Committees
Member, Political Bureau, 17th CPC Central Committee
Member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, 18th CPC Central Committee
Member, Standing Committee member and Secretary, 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Elected Vice President of PRC at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress.
