Who are CPC's New Leaders?

Li Keqiang

Member of Standing Committee of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee

The following is the biographical sketch of Li Keqiang:

Li Keqiang, male, Han ethnicity, was born in July 1955 and is from Dingyuan, Anhui Province. He began his first job in March 1974 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in May 1976. Li is a graduate of Peking University's Law Department where he earned a Bachelor of Law degree, and of the University's School of Economics where he completed an in-service graduate program in economics and was awarded a Doctor of Economics degree.

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

2013 -

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Premier, State Council

Secretary, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

2008 - 2013

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Vice Premier, State Council

Deputy Secretary, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

2007 - 2008

Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

2005 - 2007

Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress

2004 - 2005

Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee

2003 - 2004

Secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial People's Congress

2002 - 2003

Secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee

Governor, Henan Province

1999 - 2002

Deputy Secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee

Governor, Henan Province

1998 - 1999

Deputy Secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee

Acting Governor, Henan Province

1993 - 1998

First Member, Secretariat, Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (CYL)

President, China Youth University of Political Studies (concurrently)

Attended an in-service graduate program in economics at School of Economics, Peking University and was awarded Master of Economics and Doctor of Economics degrees (1988-1994)

1985 - 1993

Member, CYL Central Committee Secretariat

Vice Chairman, All-China Youth Federation (concurrently)

Took a continuing studies course for provincial- and ministerial-level officials at the Central Party School (Sep-Nov 1991)

1983 - 1985

Alternate member, CYL Central Committee Secretariat

1983

Director, Schools Department, CYL Central Committee

Secretary-General, All-China Students' Federation (concurrently)

1982 - 1983

Secretary, CYL Committee of the Peking University

Member, Standing Committee of the CYL Central Committee