Wang Yang voted chairman of top advisory body

Wang Yang, elected chairman of the 13th National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is of Han ethnicity and is from Suzhou, Anhui province. He was born in March 1955, began his first job in June 1972 and joined the Communist Party of China in August 1975. He received a university education at the Central Party School and has a master's in engineering.

Wang is a member of the Standing Committee of the 19th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, chairman of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC, vice-premier of the State Council and a member of its Leading Party Members Group.

2018: Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau