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National Energy Commission
The National Energy Commission (NEC; ) is an interdepartmental coordinating agency of the People's Republic of China, State Council that coordinates the overall energy policies for the People's Republic of China. The body includes 23 members from other agencies such as environment, finance, central bank, National Development and Reform Commission. The purpose of this new commission is to draft a new energy development strategy, evaluate energy security and coordinate international cooperation on climate change, carbon reduction and Efficient energy use, energy efficiency. History China had a Ministry of Energy established in 1988 but it was disbanded five years after its portfolio overlapped with existing ministries. In 2003, National Energy Bureau was created under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) which reports to the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Chinese State Council, which has broad administrative and planning control over energy in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang ( zh, s=李克强, p=Lǐ Kèqiáng; 3 July 1955 – 27 October 2023) was a Chinese economist and politician who served as the seventh premier of China from 2013 to 2023. He was also the second-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2012 to 2022. Li was a major part of the "Generations of Chinese leadership, fifth generation of Chinese leadership" along with Xi Jinping, the CCP general secretary and President of China, president. Born in Hefei, Anhui province, in 1955, Li initially rose through the ranks of Chinese politics through his involvement in the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), serving as its First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of China, first secretary from 1993 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004, Li served as the governor of Henan and the province's Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, party secretary. From 2004 to 2007 he served as the party secretary of Politics of Liaoning, Liaoning, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Qiang
Li Qiang (; born July 1959) is a Chinese politician who has been serving as the eighth and current premier of China since March 2023. He has been elevated to the second-ranking member on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2022. From 2017 to 2022, Li was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, party secretary for Shanghai, where he pursued pro-business policies and handled the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Li is considered part of the "New Zhijiang Army", the party faction of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP general secretary and Paramount leader, top leader since 2012. The close relationship started in the mid-2000s when both held party positions in Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province. Li is generally regarded by observers as pro-business and has voiced support for economic reforms. Early life and education Li was born in the city of Rui'an, Zhejiang, in July 1959 in his maternal grandfather's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yang Chuantang
Yang Chuantang ( zh , s = 杨传堂 , t = 楊傳堂 , p = Yáng Chuántáng ; born May 1954) is a Chinese politician who served as the Minister of Transport of the People's Republic of China from 2012 to 2016. He has also served as the vice chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, governor of Qinghai, party secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and one of the vice chairmen of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Biography Shandong Yang was born in Yucheng, Shandong province. He joined the military at age 18. During the Cultural Revolution, he worked on a rural cooperative, then was transferred to work at a petrochemicals factory, where he ascended the ranks to become supervisor and party secretary. He joined the Communist Youth League and then the Chinese Communist Party in 1976 He then took part in the production of ethylene at the Qilu Petrochemicals Company (now a part of China Petrochemical Corporation) in Shandong, his home province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhou Shengxian
Zhou Shengxian (; born December 1949) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the inaugural Minister of Environmental Protection. Biography Zhou was born in Wuzhong, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1972, and is a senior economist. He began his career as a middle school teacher. Eventually he rose to become Secretary-General of the Ningxia Autonomous Regional government, then Vice-Chairman of Ningxia, then he became deputy director of the State Forestry Administration. He became Minister of Environmental Protection in 2008, after the ministry was reformed from the Environment Protection Bureau. The ministry was given more powers than the Bureau. He left office as environmental protection minister in 2015 due to having reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 for minister-level officials. Since then he has become a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and sits on the Committee of Population, Resource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiang Daming
Jiang Daming (; born 1953) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as the Minister of Land and Resources, and formerly served as Governor of Shandong. Career Jiang was born in Rongcheng, Shandong province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1976, and in 1982 received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Heilongjiang University. He also received degrees in management at the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1996 and politics at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party in 2001. He has held numerous positions, including in Heilongjiang's production development team, vice-chairman of the All-China Youth Federation, member of the standing committee of the Shandong provincial committee and head of its organization department, vice-secretary and organization department head of the Shandong provincial committee, and Communist Party secretary of Jinan city. In May 2007, he also became secretary of the Shandong government Party group. In J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Jiwei
Lou Jiwei (; born December 1950), is a Chinese politician, and current director of the 13th CPPCC Foreign Affairs Committee. Lou was Chairman of China's National Council for Social Security Fund, Minister for Finance, Chairman of China Investment Corporation and Central Huijin Investment, Vice Minister of Finance of China and Vice-Governor of Guizhou. Biography Lou Jiwei was born in December 1950, is from Yiwu, Zhejiang, and holds a master's degree in economics. He started working in February 1968, joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1973, and graduated from the Institute of Quantitative and Technological Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with a major in economic system analysis in December 1984. He is considered outspoken. In 2013, President Xi Jinping called for the creation of state-owned investment companies to invest in key industries such as civil aviation, energy, mineral resources, nuclear power, and logistics. As Finance Minister, and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geng Huichang
Geng Huichang (; born 11 November 1951), is a Chinese intelligence officer and politician who served as the 4th Minister of State Security of the People's Republic of China and prior as president of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), the 11th bureau of the Ministry of State Security (MSS). He is currently the vice chairman of the Liaison with Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and a member of the Standing Committee of the National Conference of the CPPCC National Committee (NC-CPPCC). Early life Geng was born in Laoting County, Hebei province. He reportedly has a college degree. Intelligence career China Institute of Contemporary International Relations In 1985 Geng became deputy director of the American Research Department of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a think tank which constitutes the 11th bureau of the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miao Wei
Miao Wei (; born May 1955) is a Chinese manufacturing executive and politician. He was the Minister of Industry and Information Technology until August 2020 and as well as the former Communist Party Chief of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. Prior to that Miao was President of Dongfeng Motor, China's then second biggest carmaker. He was credited with rescuing Dongfeng from near bankruptcy and turning it into a profitable company. Career Miao Wei is a native of Beijing. Beginning to 1974 he worked as a rusticated youth in rural Feixi County of Anhui province. After the Cultural Revolution he was admitted to Hefei University of Technology in 1978, where he studied at the department of the industrial engineering, graduating in 1982. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in September 1984. After college, Miao worked for the China Auto Import-Export Corporation for ten years. By the age of 30 he was deputy manager for the company's sales division as well as the manufacturing divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wan Gang
Wan Gang (, born August 1952) is a Chinese expert on automobiles and retired politician, who served as the minister of science and technology from 2007 to 2018. The chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party from 2007 to 2022, Wan was one of the few non-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ministers in China's State Council. A graduate of the Northeast Forestry University, Wan was a visiting scholar to the Clausthal University of Technology in Germany from 1985 to 1991. He started working for Audi in 1991, where he contributed to research and development efforts. After proposing for China to focus on new car technologies using clean fuel in 2000, he was invited by the Chinese government to return to China to head the electric automobile projects in the 863 Program. He became the president of Tongji University in 2002, serving there until 2007. In 2007, he was appointed the minister of science and technology. He also became the chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party later that year, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State-owned Assets Supervision And Administration Commission
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 2003 through the consolidation of various other industry-specific ministries. SASAC is responsible for managing state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including appointing top executives and approving any mergers or sales of stock or assets, as well as drafting laws related to SOEs. , its companies had a combined assets of CN¥871 trillion (~US$116 trillion), revenue of more than CN¥85.37 trillion (~US$12 trillion) with a total profit of 4.63 trillion yuan according to a report from SASAC. Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing is responsible for the supervision of the SASAC. History SASAC was formed in 2003 to consolidate industry-specific bureaucracies and was restructured from the State Economic and Trade Commission. The Hu Jintao administration gave SASAC full ministerial rank. SASAC's mission was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Yi (politician)
Zhang Yi ( zh , s = ; born August 1950) is a Chinese politician. He was the Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and the former Party Secretary of Ningxia. Career Zhang Yi was born in Bei'an County, Heilongjiang province. When he was 19, he began working at the forestry farm in Huma County, performing manual labour. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in February 1972. In 1984, he became the mayor and then Communist Party Chief of Tahe County, Heilongjiang province. In October 1990, he was promoted to party chief of Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture. In May 2001, he became a deputy party chief of Heilongjiang province. In November 2006, Zhang was transferred to Hebei province, where he remained a deputy party chief. In September 2007, he was transferred to the central government where he was a deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party. In July 2010, Zhang was appointed Communist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yi (politician)
Wang Yi ( zh, s=王毅, p=Wáng Yì; born 19 October 1953) is a Chinese diplomat and politician who has been serving as Director of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office since January 2023, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of China since July 2023 (previously from 2013 to 2022). Wang is a member of the 20th CCP Politburo. He previously served as State Councilor of China from 2018 to 2023, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of China from 2013 to 2022, as Director of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office from 2008 to 2013, and as Ambassador of China to Japan from 2004 to 2007. Early and personal life Wang was born in Beijing. After graduating from high school in September 1969, he was sent to Northeast China. He subsequently served in the Northeast Construction Army Corps in Heilongjiang Province for eight years. In December 1977, Wang returned to Beijing and in the same year was enrolled in the department of Asian and Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
