Member of Standing Committee of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee

The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Yang:

Wang Yang, male, Han ethnicity, was born in March 1955 and is from Suzhou, Anhui Province. He began his first job in June 1972 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in August 1975. He received a university education at the Central Party School and holds a Master of Engineering degree.

Wang is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, Vice Premier of the State Council and a member of its Leading Party Members Group.

2017 -

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Vice Premier, State Council

Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

2013 - 2017

Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Vice Premier, State Council

Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

2012 - 2013

Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

2007 - 2012

Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee

2007

Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress

2006 - 2007

Secretary, CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress

2005 - 2006

Secretary, CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee

2003 - 2005

Deputy Secretary-General (minister level, in charge of the General Office's routine work), State Council

Deputy Secretary, Leading Party Members Group for the Organs under the State Council

1999 - 2003

Vice Minister and member of the Leading Party Members Group, National Development and Planning Commission

Took a continuing studies course for provincial- and ministerial-level officials at the Central Party School (Sep-Nov 2001)

1998 - 1999

Deputy Secretary, CPC Anhui Provincial Committee

Vice Governor, Anhui Province

1993 - 1998

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee

Vice Governor, Anhui Province

Took a continuing studies course for provincial- and ministerial-level officials at the Central Party School (Mar-May 1997)

Attended an in-service graduate program in management at Department of Management Science, University of Science and Technology of China and was awarded a Master of Engineering degree (1993-1995)

1993

Vice Governor, Anhui Province

1992 - 1993

Director and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, Anhui Provincial Planning Commission

Assistant to the Governor, Anhui Province

1988 - 1992

Deputy Secretary, CPC Tongling Municipal Committee, Anhui Province

Acting Mayor and Mayor, Tongling, Anhui Province

Attended an in-service undergraduate program in party and government administration through Correspondence School of the Central Party School (1989-1992)

1987 - 1988

Director and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, Anhui Provincial Sports Commission

1984 - 1987

Deputy Director and Leading Party Members Group Deputy Secretary, Anhui Provincial Sports Commission

1983 - 1984

Deputy Secretary, CYL Anhui Provincial Committee

1982 - 1983

Head, Publicity Department, CYL Anhui Provincial Committee

1981 - 1982

Deputy Secretary, CYL Suxian Prefectural Committee, Anhui Province

1980 - 1981

Teacher, Party School of the CPC Suxian Prefectural Committee, Anhui Province

1979 - 1980

Attended a course in political economy for theoretical publicity officials at the Central Party School

1976 - 1979

Teacher; Deputy Head of Teaching and Research Office; and member of the Party Committee, Suxian Prefecture May 7th Cadre School, Anhui Province

1972 - 1976

Worker and workshop head, Suxian Prefectural Foodstuffs Factory, Anhui Province

Alternate member, 16th CPC Central Committee

Member, 17th through 19th CPC Central Committees

Member, Political Bureau, 17th and 18th CPC Central Committees

Member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, 19th CPC Central Committee