| by B.Raman
( November 14, 2012, Chennai, Sri Lanka
Guardian) The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will end on
November 14,2012, after approving the new General Secretary (Mr.Xi Jinping),
the new seven-member Standing Committee of the Politbureau, the new Politbureau
and the new 18th Central Committee.
2.All these organs will look after the
affairs of the Party till the 19th Party Congress in 2017. The official
announcements regarding the new party organs will be made at a press conference
on November 15 at which the new Standing Committee of the Politbureau will be
introduced to the public for the first time.
3.The bio-data of the likely new members
of the Standing Committee of the Politbureau as taken from Chinese Internet
Databases are given below. This is still a speculative list and is not yet
confirmed.
4.Of the seven names figuring in the
speculative list, only Mr.Xi is member
of the outgoing Standing Committee of the Politbureau. The remaining six were
members of the outgoing Politbureau, but not of its Standing Committee. Of
these six, who are tipped to be the new members of the Standing Committee of
the new Politbureau, one is an economic expert, one a historian-cum-banking
expert, one is a missile engineer, one an expert in petroleum refining, one an
expert on Inner Mongolia and one an expert on North Korea.
1.Xi Jinping, ethnic Han, native of
Fuping, Shaanxi Province, born in June 1953. Joined the CPC in January 1974 and
began working in January 1969. Graduated from the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, majoring in Marxist theory and
ideological education. With an on-the-job postgraduate education. LLD.
Member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the
CPC Central Committee, and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.
1969-1975: Worked as an educated youth
sent to the countryside at Liangjiahe Brigade, Wen'anyi Commune, Yanchuan
County, Shaanxi Province, and served as Party branch secretary.
1975-1979: Student of basic organic synthesis
at the Chemical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.
1979-1982: Secretary at the General
Office of the State Council and the General Office of the Central Military
Commission (as an officer in active service).
1982-1983: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Zhengding County Committee, Hebei Province.
1983-1985: Secretary of the CPC
Zhengding County Committee, Hebei Province.
1985-1988: Member of the Standing
Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and vice mayor of Xiamen, Fujian
Province.
1988-1990: Secretary of the CPC Ningde
Prefectural Committee, Fujian Province.
1990-1993: Secretary of the CPC Fuzhou
Municipal Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou
Municipal People's Congress, Fujian Province.
1993-1995: Member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, secretary of the CPC Fuzhou
Municipal Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou
Municipal People's Congress.
1995-1996: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Fujian Provincial Committee, secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee
and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fuzhou Municipal People's
Congress.
1996-1999: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Fujian Provincial Committee.
1999-2000: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Fujian Provincial Committee and acting governor of Fujian Province.
2000-2002: Studied Marxist theory and ideological
education in an on-the-job postgraduate program at the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences of Tsinghua University and graduated with an LLD degree.
2002-2002: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Zhejiang Provincial Committee and acting governor of Zhejiang Province.
2002-2003: Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang
Provincial Committee and acting governor of Zhejiang Province.
2003-2007: Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang
Provincial People's Congress.
2007-2007: Secretary of the CPC Shanghai
Municipal Committee.
2007-2008: Member of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the
Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and president of Party School of the
CPC Central Committee.
2008-2010: Member of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the
Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, vice president of PRC and president
of Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
2010- : Vice chairman of the CPC Central
Military Commission.
Alternate member of the Fifteenth CPC
Central Committee, and member of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee. Member of
the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee, member of the Political Bureau and its
Standing Committee, and member of the Secretariat of the Seventeenth CPC Central
Committee.
2.Li Keqiang, ethnic Han, native of
Dingyuan, Anhui Province, born in July 1955. Joined the CPC in May 1976 and
began working in March 1974. Graduated from the School of Economics of Peking
University, majoring in economics. With on-the-job postgraduate education.
Doctor of Economics.
Member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Liaoning
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning
Provincial People's Congress.
1974-1976: Secondary school graduate
sent to work at Dongling Brigade, Damiao Commune, Fengyang County, Anhui
Province.
1976-1978: Party branch secretary of
Damiao Brigade, Damiao Commune, Fengyang County, Anhui Province.
1978-1982: Student of the Department of
Law and leading member of the Student Union of Peking University.
1982-1983: Secretary of the CYLC
committee of Peking University.
1983-1985: Director general of the
School Department of the CYLC Central Committee and concurrently secretary
general of the All-China Students' Federation, Alternate member of the
Secretariat of the CYLC Central Committee.
1985-1993: Member of the Secretariat of
the CYLC Central Committee and vice chairman of the All-China Youth Federation
(September-November 1991: studied at the Party School of CPC Central
Committee).
1993-1998: First secretary of the
Secretariat of the CYLC Central Committee and concurrently president of the
China Youth Political College (1988-1994: obtained MA and doctorate of
Economics after attending the on-the-job postgraduate program on Economics at
the School of Economics of Peking University).
1998-1999: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Henan Provincial Committee and acting governor of Henan Province.
1999-2002: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Henan Provincial Committee and governor of Henan Province.
2002-2003: Secretary of the CPC Henan
Provincial Committee and governor of Henan Province.
2003-2004: Secretary of the CPC Henan
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Henan
Provincial People's Congress.
2004-2005: Secretary of the CPC Liaoning
Provincial Committee.
2005-2007: Secretary of the CPC Liaoning
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning
Provincial People's Congress.
2007- Member of the Standing Committee
of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC
Liaoning Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the
Liaoning Provincial People's Congress.
Member of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and
Seventeenth CPC Central Committees. Member of the Political Bureau and its
Standing Committee of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee. Member of the
Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress.
3.Zhang Dejiang, ethnic Han, native of
Tai'an, Liaoning Province, born in November 1946. Joined the CPC in January
1971 and began working in November 1968. Graduated from the Department of
Economics, Kim Il Sung University, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK). With a university education.
Member of the Political Bureau of the
CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee.
1968-1970: Worked as an educated youth
sent to the countryside at Taiping Brigade, Luozigou Commune, Wangqing County,
Jilin Province.
1970-1972: Member of the Publicity Group
of Wangqing County Revolutionary Committee, Jilin Province, and secretary of
its Communist Youth League branch.
1972-1975: Student of Yanbian University
majoring in the Korean language.
1975-1978: Deputy secretary of the
general Party branch committee of the Department of the Korean Language,
Yanbian University, member of the standing committee of its Party Committee and
vice chairman of its Revolutionary Committee.
1978-1980: Student of the Department of
Economics of Kim Il Sung University, DPRK and secretary of the CPC branch
committee of Chinese students studying at the university.
1980-1983: Member of the standing
committee of the Party Committee and president of Yanbian University.
1983-1985: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Committee of Yanji, and concurrently member of the standing committee of the
CPC Committee of Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province.
1985-1986: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Committee of Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province.
1986-1990: Vice Minister of Civil
Affairs and deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the
Ministry of Civil Affairs.
1990-1995: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Jilin Provincial Committee and concurrently secretary of the CPC Committee of
Yanbian Prefecture.
1995-1998: Secretary of the CPC Jilin
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Jilin
Provincial People's Congress.
1998-2002: Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang
Provincial Committee.
2002-: Member of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee, and secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial
Committee.
Alternate member of the Fourteenth CPC
Central Committee, member of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth CPC Central
Committees, and Political Bureau member of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC
Central Committees.
4.Yu Zhengsheng, ethnic Han, native of
Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, born in April 1945. Joined the CPC in November
1964 and began working in August 1963. Graduated from the Department of Missile
Engineering, Harbin Military Engineering Institute, majoring in automatic
control of ballistic missiles. With a university education. Engineer.
Member of the Political Bureau of the
CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee.
1963-1968: Student majoring in automatic
control of ballistic missiles at the Department of Missile Engineering, Harbin
Military Engineering Institute.
1968-1971: Technician of Zhangjiakou No.
6 Radio Factory, Hebei Province.
1971-1975: Technician and director of
Qiaoxi Radio Factory, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province.
1975-1981: Technician and engineer of
Research Institute for Promotion and Application of Electronic Technology under
the Fourth Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.
1981-1982: Assistant chief engineer of
Research Institute for Promotion and Application of Electronic Technology under
the Fourth Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.
1982-1984: Deputy director of Research
Institute for Promotion and Application of Electronic Technology under the
Ministry of Electronics Industry; chief of Second Systems Division, assistant
chief engineer and head of Department of Microcomputer Management of the
Administration for Computer Industry, the Ministry of Electronics Industry; and
deputy director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Electronics
Industry.
1984-1985: President, vice chairman of
the board and member of the Leading Party Members' Group of the China Welfare
Fund for the Disabled (equal to bureau-chief as from December 1984; and acting
general manager of China Kanghua Industrial Company Ltd., January-March 1985).
1985-1987: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Yantai Municipal Committee, Shandong Province.
1987-1989: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Yantai Municipal Committee and mayor of Yantai, Shandong Province.
1989-1992: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Qingdao Municipal Committee and deputy mayor and major of Qingdao, Shandong
Province .
1992-1994: Member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, secretary of the CPC
Qingdao Municipal Committee, and mayor of Qingdao.
1994-1997: Member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and secretary of the CPC
Qingdao Municipal Committee.
1997-1998: Secretary of the Leading
Party Members' Group of the Ministry of Construction and vice-minister of
Construction.
1998-2001: Minister of Construction and
secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry of Construction
2001-2002 Secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee.
2002-2003: Member of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial
Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial
People's Congress.
2003- 2007: Member of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial
Committee.
2007-: Member of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal
Committee.
Alternate member of the Fourteenth CPC
Central Committee, member of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth CPC Central
Committees, and Political Bureau member of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC
Central Committees.
5.Liu Yunshan, ethnic Han, native of
Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, born in July 1947. Joined the CPC in April 1971 and
began working in September 1966. Graduated from the Party School of the CPC
Central Committee. With a university education.
Member of the Political Bureau and the
Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department
of the CPC Central Committee.
1964-1968: Student at Jining Normal
School, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
1968-1969: Teacher of Bashi School of
Tumd Left Banner and sent to do manual labor in Sobugai People's Commune of
Tumd Right Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
1969-1975: Clerk of the Publicity
Department of the CPC Tumd Right Banner Committee, Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region
1975-1982: Reporter, deputy section
chief and member of the Leading Party Members' Group of Inner Mongolia Bureau
of Xinhua News Agency (studied at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee
from March to August 1981)
1982-1984: Deputy secretary of the
Communist Youth League Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee and its
Leading Party Members' Group
1984-1986: Deputy head of the Publicity
Department of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee
1986-1987: Member of the Standing
Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Regional Committee
1987-1991: Member of the Standing
Committee and secretary general of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional
Committee and concurrently secretary of Working Committee of the Organs Under
CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee
1991-1992: Member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee and secretary
of the CPC Chifeng Municipal Committee
1992-1993: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee and concurrently secretary of the
CPC Chifeng Municipal Committee (1989-1992: took a correspondence course of the
Central Party School, majoring in Party and government administration)
1993-1997: Deputy head of the Publicity
Department of the CPC Central Committee
1997-2002: Deputy head of the Publicity
Department of the CPC Central Committee (confirmed as ministerial-level
official in October 1997), head of the Office of the Spiritual Civilization
Steering Committee of the CPC Central Committee
2002-: Member of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central
Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee
Alternate member of the Twelfth and Fourteenth CPC Central Committees, and
member of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth CPC Central Committees. Member of
the Political Bureau and the Secretariat of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC
Central Committees.
6.Zhang Gaoli, ethnic Han, native of
Jinjiang, Fujian Province, born in November 1946. Joined the CPC in December
1973 and began working in August 1970. Graduated from the Department of
Economics, Xiamen University, majoring in planning and statistics. With a
university education.
Member of the Political Bureau of the
CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee.
1965-1970: Student majoring in planning
and statistics in the Department of Economics, Xiamen University.
1970-1977: Worker of the Guangdong
Maoming Petroleum Company under the Ministry of the Petroleum Industry,
secretary of its production headquarters office, secretary of the CYLC general
branch of its political department, and deputy secretary of its CYLC committee.
1977-1980: Secretary of the general
branch of the CPC committee and political instructor of the first workshop of
the refinery of the Guangdong Maoming Petroleum Company under the Ministry of
the Petroleum Industry, deputy secretary and secretary of the refinery Party
committee.
1980-1984: Standing committee member of
the Party committee of the Maoming Petroleum Industrial Company under the
Ministry of the Petroleum Industry, director of its planning division, and
deputy manager of the company.
1984-1985 Deputy secretary of the CPC
committee of Maoming City, Guangdong Province, and manager of the Maoming
Petroleum Industrial Company under SINOPEC
1985-1988: Director of the Guangdong
Provincial Economic Commission and secretary of its Leading Party Members'
Group.
1988-1992: Deputy governor of Guangdong
Province (April-July 1990: participated in the training program for provincial
and ministerial level cadres at the Central Party School).
1992-1993: Deputy governor of Guangdong
Province and concurrently director of the provincial planning commission and
secretary of the commission's Leading Party Members' Group.
1993-1994: Standing committee member of
the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, deputy governor of Guangdong Province
and concurrently director of the provincial planning commission and secretary
of the commission's Leading Party Members' Group.
1994-1997: Standing committee member of
the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and deputy governor of Guangdong
Province.
1997-1998: Standing committee member of
the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and secretary of the CPC Shenzhen
Municipal Committee.
1998-2000: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Guangdong Provincial Committee and secretary of the CPC Shenzhen City
Committee.
2000-2001: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Guangdong Provincial Committee, secretary of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal
Committee, and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal
People's Congress.
2001-2002: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Shandong Provincial Committee, acting governor and governor of Shandong
Province.
2002-2003: Secretary of the CPC Shandong
Provincial Committee and governor of Shandong Province.
2003-2007: Secretary of the CPC Shandong
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of Shandong Provincial
People's Congress.
2007-: Member of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee.
Alternate member of the Fifteenth CPC
Central Committees, member of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC Central
Committees, and member of the Political Bureau of the Seventeenth CPC Central
Committee.
7.Wang Qishan, ethnic Han, native of
Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, born in July 1948. Joined the CPC in February 1983
and began working in January 1969. Graduated from the Department of History of
Northwest University, majoring in history. With a university education. Senior
economist.
Member of the Political Bureau of the
CPC Central Committee, deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee,
mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for
the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.
1969-1971: Worked as an educated youth
sent to the countryside at Fengzhuang People's Commune in Yan'an County,
Shaanxi Province.
1971-1973: Worked in Shaanxi Provincial
Museum.
1973-1976: Student majoring in history
of the Department of History of Northwest University.
1976-1979: Worked in Shaanxi Provincial
Museum.
1979-1982: Intern researcher at the
Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
1982-1986: Division chief, researcher
(at the deputy department chief level) and deputy director of the Liaison
Office, at the Rural Policy Research Office of the Secretariat of the CPC
Central Committee and the Rural Development Research Center under the State
Council.
1986-1988: Researcher (at the department
chief level) of the Rural Policy Research Office of the Secretariat of the CPC
Central Committee, director of the Liaison Office of the Rural Development
Research Center under the State Council and concurrently director of the
National Office for Pilot Areas of Rural Reform, and acting director and
director of the Development Institute of the Rural Development Research Center
under the State Council.
1988-1989: General manager and secretary
of the Party committee of China Rural Trust and Investment Corporation.
1989-1993: Vice governor of the People's
Construction Bank of China and member of its Leading Party Members' Group
(attended a workshop run by the Party School of the CPC Central Committee for
cadres at the provincial and ministerial level from September to November
1992).
1993-1994: Vice governor of the People's
Bank of China and member of its Leading Party Members' Group.
1994-1996: Governor of the People's
Construction Bank of China and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.
1996-1997: Governor of the Construction
Bank of China and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.
1997-1998: Member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee.
1998-2000: Member of the Standing
Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and vice-governor of
Guangdong Province.
2000-2002: Director of the Office for
Economic Restructuring under the State Council and secretary of its Leading
Party Members' Group.
2002-2003: Secretary of the CPC Hainan
Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of Hainan
Provincial People's Congress.
2003-2004: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Beijing Municipal Committee, acting mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the
Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its
Leading Party Members' Group.
2004-2007: Deputy secretary of the CPC
Beijing Municipal Committee, mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the
Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its
Leading Party Members' Group.
2007-: Member of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee, deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal
Committee, mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing
Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its Leading Party
Members' Group.
Alternate member of the Fifteenth CPC
Central Committee. Member of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Central Committees.
Member of the Political Bureau of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee.
