E Jingping (; born January 1956) is a Chinese engineer and politician who served as Minister of Water Resources from 2018 to 2021. He was an alternate member of the

18th CPC Central Committee The 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, 18th National Congress on 15 November 2012, and sat in plenary sessions until the communing of the 19th National C ...

and is a member of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

Early life and education

E Jingping was born in

Laoting County Laoting County (), often mispronounced as Leting County in accordance with the alternative frequently used Mandarin pronunciation, is a county in the northeast of Hebei province, People's Republic of China, facing the Bohai Sea to the east and s ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...

in January 1956. In the heyday of the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

in 1973, his studies was interrupted by the

Down to the Countryside Movement The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement, often known simply as the Down to the Countryside Movement, was a policy instituted in the People's Republic of China between mid 1950s and 1978. As a result of what he perceived to ...

, he became a

sent-down youth The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (), also known as the ''zhiqing'', were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the ...

and worked in Baishan Commune of

Lishu County Lishu County () is a county of western Jilin province, China, bordering Liaoning to the southwest. It is under the administration of Siping City Siping (), formerly Ssupingkai (), is a prefecture-level city in the west of Jilin province, People ...

, in

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Jilin Jilin (; alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea ( Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) and Russia (Prim ...

province. In September 1975, he was accepted to Jilin Hydropower School and graduated in August 1977. In January 1977 he joined the

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. After graduation, he became an official in Jilin Water Conservancy Design Institute, serving in the post until September 1979, when he entered North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power.

Career

After graduating in August 1983, he was assigned to the Ministry of Water Resources, he served in several posts there, including secretary, department chief and director. In June 1994 he was promoted to become director and party branch secretary of

Yellow River Conservancy Commission {{Use mdy dates, date = February 2019 Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC) is a government agency of Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China. YRCC takes responsibility of water administration of the Yellow River basin ...

, he remained in that positions until May 2001, when he was appointed secretary general of th
Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters
In August 2003 he was promoted again to become vice-minister of Water Resources. On March 19, 2018, he was elected minister of Water Resources at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress. He concurrently serving as director of th
Office of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project Commission of the State Council
and deputy commander of the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters since July 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:E, Jingping 1956 births Engineers from Hebei Living people North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese hydrologists