Leng Rong (; born August 1953) is a Chinese politician and the current deputy director of the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee. He served as president of the between 2018 and 2019. He is a member of the

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Biography

Leng was born in Pingdu County,

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

, in August 1953. In September 1969, he became a soldier in the Fifth Division of the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps. In January 1973, he was transferred to Beijing No.2 Machine Tool Works. After the resumption of college entrance examination, in September 1979, he entered

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, majoring in philosophy. After graduating in August 1983, he was despatched to the , where he was promoted to deputy director in 1997 and to executive deputy director in 2001. He was vice president of

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in November 2004, and held that office until December 2007. Then he succeeded Teng Wensheng as director of the Party Documents Research Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was also president of the Chinese Society of Scientific Socialism and Chinese Communist Literature Research Association. In March 2018, the Party Documents Research Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was revoked and its function was merged into the newly founded , he was made president. In March 2018, he was appointed deputy director of the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leng, Rong 1953 births Living people Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong Members of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress People from Pingdu Peking University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong Directors of the Documentation Research Office