Zeng Qinghong was elected vice president of the People's Republic of China on March 15, 2003.
Zeng Qinghong, a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, was born in July 1939. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1960 and began working in July 1963, after graduating from the Automatic Control Department of the Beijing Institute of Technology. He is an engineer.
He is now member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.
1958-1963: Student of the Automatic Control Department, Beijing Institute of Technology.
1963-1965: Technician of No. 743 Army Unit, the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
1965-1969: Technician of No. 6 Office, No. 2 Department of the Second Academy, the Seventh Machine-Building Industry Ministry.
1969-1970: Did manual work at the Chikan base of the Guangzhou troops and at the Xihu production base in Hunan Province.
1970-1973: Technician of No. 2 Department of the Second Academy, the Seventh Machine-Building Industry Ministry.
1973-1979: Technician of Production Division and Science and Technology Division, Beijing Office of National Defense Industry.
1979-1981: Secretary of the General Office of the State Planning Commission.
1981-1982: Deputy division director of the General Office of the State Energy Commission.
1982-1983: Worked at the Liaison Department of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry.
1983-1984: Deputy manager of the Liaison Department of China National Offshore Oil Corporation; deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry; secretary of the Party Committee of the South and Yellow Seas Petroleum Corporation.
1984-1986: Deputy head and head of the Organization Department, and member of the Standing Committee of and secretary-general of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.
1986-1989: Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.
1989-1993: Deputy director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.
1993-1997: Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee; secretary of the Work Committee for Offices Directly Under the CPC Central Committee.
1997-1999: Alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee; member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee; director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee; secretary of the Work Committee for Offices Directly Under the CPC Central Committee.
1999-2002: Alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee; member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee; and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
2002-: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.
He was member of the 15th CPC Central Committee, an alternate member of its political bureau and member of its Secretariat. He is member of the 16th CPC Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of its Political Bureau, and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.
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