BEIJING: Wang Yang was elected chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the top political advisory body, Wednesday afternoon.
Wang was elected at the fourth plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee by more than 2,100 political advisors. Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the 12th CPPCC National Committee, shook hands with Wang amid warm applause after the election result was announced.
Wang was born in March 1955 in Suzhou of east China’s 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 had worked as worker, teacher and Party and government officials in Anhui until 1999, and later held Party and government posts in central and local organs, such as Party chiefs of Chongqing Municipality and Guangdong Province, and deputy secretary-general of State Council. He has been Vice Premier of the State Council since 2013.
Published in Daily Times, March 15th 2018.
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