18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
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. He was a member of the 10th, 13th and 14th National Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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Shandong
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, in July 1957. He graduated from Shandong Agricultural College (now
Shandong Agricultural University
Shandong Agricultural University (SDAU; ), established in 1906, is a comprehensive university in Shandong, China. Several academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering are graduates from SDAU.
Career
Cui joined the
Chinese Communist Party
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(CCP) in August 1975, and entered the workforce in March 1976.
Cui was
party secretary
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of Xiangcheng District in June 1983 and subsequently secretary of Jining Municipal Committee of the
Communist Youth League of China
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in March 1984.
Cui became mayor of
Qufu
Qufu ( ; zh, c=曲阜) is a county-level city in southwestern Shandong province, East China. It is located about south of the provincial capital Jinan and northeast of the prefectural seat at Jining. Qufu has an area of 815 square kilometers, ...
, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of
Jining
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, in March 1985, and then party secretary, the top political position in the city, beginning in July 1986.
Cui was deputy secretary of Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of China in September 1992, in addition to serving as president of Shandong Provincial Youth Federation.
In November 1994, Cui was transferred to
Beijing
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and assigned to the Communist Youth League of China, where he successively served as head of the Department for Safeguarding Youth Rights and Interests, head of the Agriculture and Youth Department, and secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. He also served as vice president of the
All-China Youth Federation
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from December 2001 to May 2003.
Cui was appointed vice chairman of
Ningxia
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Yinchuan
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in December 2003, concurrently serving as
deputy party secretary
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of Ningxia since August 2011. In January 2017, he became vice chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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, rising to
chairman
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