Hu Jintao elected President of China
( 2003-03-15 11:49 ) (9 )

Hu Jintao, 60, chief of China's Communist Party, is elected as the new President of the People's Republic of China on March 15, 2003 by the First Session of the 10th National People's Congress, China's parliament. Zong Qinghong, another leading Party official, was elected as Vice-Chairman of PRC. [Xinhua photo]

Hu Jintao, 60, who is China's Communist Party chief, was elected as the new President of the People's Republic of China on Saturday at an on-going session of the NPC, China's top legislature. Hu, born in 1942, became a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee last November, during the Party's 16th National Congress.

Meanwhile, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was re-elected on Saturday as chairman of the Central Military Commission of PRC.

Zeng Qinghong, another senior party official who sits on the 9-member Communist Party Central Committee Politiburo Standing Committee, was elected as Vice-President of PRC. Before the session, Hu Jintao was China's Vice-President.

Earlier, Wu Bangguo, a former deputy Premier of the State Council and also a member of the Politiburo Standing Committee, was elected to be the new chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, China's parliament. In addition, 15 people were elected as the vice-chairpersons of NPC, including two women.

Candidates for the premiership, 4 deputy premierships, 5 State Councillors and 28 State Council ministers have been finalized and discussed by the NPC deputies. They will be known in the last 3 remaining days session of the NPC.

****** Biography of Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin, born on 17 August 1926, is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China.

He participated in the students' movement led by underground CPC organizations from 1943 and joined the CPC in April 1946. He graduated from the Electrical Machinery Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1947.

After the liberation of Shanghai, he served successively as deputy engineer, chief of the works section and concurrently head of the power workshop, Party branch secretary and first deputy director of Shanghai Yimin No. 1 Foodstuff Factory, first deputy director of Shanghai Soap Factory, chief of the electrical machinery section of Shanghai No. 2 Design Division of the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.

He worked as a trainee at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow in 1955.

After returning to China in 1956, he worked as deputy chief of the dynamic mechanics division, deputy chief engineer for dynamic mechanics of the First Automobile Plant in Changchun and director of the power factory in the plant.

After 1962, he served successively as deputy director of the Shanghai Electrical Equipment Research Institute under the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, director and acting Party committee secretary of the Wuhan Heat-Power Machinery Institute under the Ministry, deputy director-general and director-general of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the First Ministry of Machine- Building Industry.

After 1980, he served as vice-chairman and concurrently secretary-general of the State Administration Commission on Import and Export Affairs and the State Administration Commission on Foreign Investment and a member of the Leading Party Members' Groups of the two commissions.

After 1982, he served as first vice-minister and deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry of Electronics Industry and minister and secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry.

After 1985, he served as mayor of Shanghai and deputy secretary and secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. He was elected member of the CPC Central Committee at the Twelfth CPC National Congress in September 1982.

In November 1987, he was elected member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee.In June 1989, he was elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee.

In November 1989, he was elected chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee.

In March 1990, he was elected chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. In October 1992, he was elected member of the Political Bureau, its Standing Committee and general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the First Plenary Session of the Fourteenth CPC Central Committee.

In March 1993, he was elected president of the People's Republic of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the First Session of the Eighth National People's Congress.

In September 1997, he was elected member of the Political Bureau and its Standing Committee and general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the First Plenary Session of the Fifteenth CPC Central Committee.In March 1998, he was re-elected president of the People's Republic of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress.

In November 2002, he was re-elected chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the First Plenary Session of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee.

****** Biography of Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao, male, Han nationality, a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, was born in December 1942. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1964 and began to work in July 1965. He graduated from the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University where he had majored in the study of hub hydropower stations. With a university education, he holds the title as an engineer.

He is now general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, vice- chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, vice-president of the People's Republic of China, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China and president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

1959-1964 Student at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University

1964-1965 Postgraduate and political instructor at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University

1965-1968 Participated in R&D at the Water Conservancy Engineering Department of Tsinghua University and served as political instructor before the start of the "Cultural Revolution"

1968-1969 Worked with the housing construction team of Liujia Gorge Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Water Conservancy

1969-1974 Technician and secretary of No. 813 Sub-Bureau, Fourth Engineering Bureau, Ministry of Water Conservancy and deputy-secretary of the general Party branch of the sub-bureau's head office

1974-1975 Secretary at the Gansu Provincial Construction Committee (GPCC)

1975-1980 Deputy director of the design management division, GPCC

1980-1982 Vice-chairman of GPCC and secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League (Sept. 1982-Dec. 1982)

1982-1984 Secretary, Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, Chairman of the All-China Youth Federation

1984-1985 First secretary, Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China

1985-1988 Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee

1988-1992 Secretary of the Party Committee of Tibet Autonomous Region

1992-1993 Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee

1993-1998 Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee

1998-1999 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 the People's Republic of China, President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee

1999-2002 Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, Vice-chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, Vice-president of the People's Republic of China, Vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee

2002- General secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Vice- chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, Vice-president of the People's Republic of China, Vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee

He was an alternate member, member of the 12th CPC Central Committee, member of the 13th, 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees and is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee. He was a member of the Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, and member of the Secretariat of the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees and is a member of the Political Bureau and of its Standing Committee, and general secretary of the 16th CPC Central Committee. He was made an additional vice-chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the fourth plenary session of the 15th CPC Central Committee. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

***** Biography of Zeng Qinghong

Zeng Qinghong, male, 62, Han nationality, 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. He graduated from the Automatic Control Department, Beijing Institute of Technology. He is a university graduate and 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 Ministry of Machine-Building Industry

1969-1970 Sent to do manual labor 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 Ministry of Machine-Building Industry

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 Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC

1986-1989 Deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee

1989-1993 Deputy director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee

1993-1997 Director of the General Office of 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 a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee, an alternate member of its political bureau and member of its Secretariat. He is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee, a member of its Political Bureau and of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.

***** Biography of Wu Bangguo

Wu Bangguo, male, Han nationality, a native of Feidong County, Anhui Province, was born in July 1941. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1964 and began working in September 1966. He graduated from the specialty of electron tube of the Department of Radio Electronics of Tsinghua University. With a university education, he holds the title as an engineer. He serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council, a member of its Leading Party Members' Group and Secretary of the Work Committee of Large Enterprises of the CPC Central Committee.

1960-1967 Student majoring in electron tube at the Department of Radio Electronics of Tsinghua University

1967-1976 Worker and technician of Shanghai No. 3 Electronic Tube Factory, deputy chief and chief of its technical section

1976-1978 Deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai No. 3 Electronic Tube Factory, deputy director of its revolutionary committee, deputy factory director, deputy secretary of the Party committee of the factory and factory director

1978-1979 Deputy manager of Shanghai Electronic Elements Company

1979-1981 Deputy manager of Shanghai Electron Tube Company

1981-1983 Deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Meters, Instruments and Telecommunications Bureau

1983-1985 Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and secretary of the CPC Municipal Committee in Charge of Science and Technology

1985-1991 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1991-1992 Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1992-1994 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1994-1995 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee

1995-1997 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and vice-premier of the State Council

1997-1998 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice-Premier of the State Council

1998-1999 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice-Premier of the State Council and secretary of the Central Work Committee of Large Enterprises

1999-2002 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Members' Group and secretary of the Central Work Committee of Large Enterprises

2002- Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Members' Group and secretary of the Central Work Committee of Large Enterprises

He was alternate member of the 12th and 13th CPC Central Committees, member of the 14th CPC Central Committee, and member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He was elected an additional member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee at the 4th Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee. He was member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and member of its Political Bureau. He is member of the 16th CPC Central Committee, member of its Political Bureau and Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau.

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