Chen Baosheng (; born May 1956) is a Chinese politician and academic administrator. He currently serves as China's Minister of Education. He formerly served as the party chief and vice-president of the

China National School of Administration The Chinese Academy of Governance (), usually mentioned as the China National School of Administration by media, was a public administration academy for middle and senior government officials in China from 1994 to 2018. The academy was located at ...

and vice-president of the

Central Party School The Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (), commonly known as the Central Party School (), located in Beijing, is the higher education institution which trains Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. As of 2012, it has around 1,6 ...

. Chen was born in Lanzhou, Gansu province. He has been a member of the Chinese Communist Party since 1984. He has degree from Peking University in political economics. He worked in Gansu province, working in policy research and economic development. He was the Party Secretary of

Jiuquan Jiuquan, formerly known as Suzhou, is a prefecture-level city in the northwesternmost part of Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China. It is more than wide from east to west, occupying , although its built-up area is mostly located in i ...

prior to the area's conversion to a prefecture-level city. In April 2002 he was named to the

provincial Party Standing Committee Members of the standing committees of the Chinese Communist Party provincial-level committees, commonly referred to as ''Shengwei Changwei'' (), make up the top ranks of the provincial-level organizations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I ...

of Gansu, then became the head of the provincial propaganda department. In November 2004 he was named party chief of Lanzhou. In June 2008 he was transferred to Beijing to become vice-president of the

. On March 20, 2013, he became the party chief and vice-president of the

. On July 2, 2016, he was appointed as Minister of Education. He has been an alternate member of the

17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 17th Congress on 21 October 2007, and sat until the 18th National Congress in 2012. The 17th CC is composed of full members and alternate members. It was followed by the ...

and a full member of the

18th 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

and the 19th Central Committees.

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