Chen Gang (; born April 1965) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as

Party Secretary of Guangxi The secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the Pe ...

. Previously he served as Chairperson of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress and

Party Secretary of Qinghai The secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ...

. He also served as Party Secretary of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He spent much of his career in Beijing, before being transferred to Guizhou as party chief of

Guiyang Guiyang; Mandarin pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, alternatively as Kweiyang is the capital of Guizhou, Guizhou province in China. It is centrally located within the province, on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, eastern part of the Yun ...

. He then served as

Party Secretary In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In s ...

of the

Xiong'an New Area Xiong'an New Area is a state-level new area in the Baoding area of Hebei, China. Established in April 2017, the area is located about south of Beijing and east of downtown Baoding. Its main function is to serve as a development hub for the ...

and Vice Governor of Hebei, and a member of the

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

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 ...

Biography

Chen was born in

Gaoyou Gaoyou (), is a county-level city under the administration of Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, located in the Yangtze River Delta on the north side of the Yangtze River. History Recent archaeological finds at the Longqiuzhuang site in Gaoyou has ...

, Jiangsu province, near

Yangzhou Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou, Jiangsu, ...

. He attended Yangzhou Normal College (now

Yangzhou University Yangzhou University (YZU; ) is a public university in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. It grew out of a merger in 1992 of six local colleges. The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs. History Jiangsu Province Government proce ...

) between 1980 and 1984, where he studied chemistry. He then attended graduate school at

Harbin Institute of Technology The Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) is a public science and engineering university in Nan'gang, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. It is one of the top universities in China and now affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Techn ...

, majoring in applied chemistry and

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materials. He joined the

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in 1986. In 1987, he began studying for his doctorate degree in

inorganic chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with chemical synthesis, synthesis and behavior of inorganic compound, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subj ...

Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...

. Beginning in 1990, he worked at the Beijing Glass Research Institute. In July 1994, he was promoted to deputy director of the research institute, and vice president at Beijing Yiqing Group. In July 2000, he became the deputy head of the commission on foreign trade and commerce of Beijing. In 2003, he took on his first political office, becoming deputy party chief of Chaoyang District, then district governor (confirmed in January 2004). In October 2006, he was named party chief of Chaoyang District; in July 2012 he was named to the Beijing

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 ...

, along with, by coincidence, another person with an identical name, who was vice mayor. To disambiguate the two at routine meetings, Chen Gang (1966) was known as "Chen Gang (government)", and Chen Gang (1965) was known as "Chen Gang (Chaoyang District)". In June 2013 he was transferred to Guizhou to serve on the provincial standing committee, and then he was named party chief of the provincial capital

in 2013. In Guiyang, Chen was known for experimenting with policies that aimed to transform Guiyang and its surrounding areas from an agrarian backwater to a

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

hub. In 2017, Chen was appointed Party Secretary of the

, a vast area of development assigned by the state to supplement the growth of the Beijing metropolitan region. He was also made Vice Governor and concurrently a member of the Hebei

. Chen was First Secretary of the Secretariat of the

All-China Federation of Trade Unions The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is the national trade union center and people's organization of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary tra ...

in February 2021, in addition to serving as vice president. Chen was made

in January 2023, concurrently serving as Chairperson of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress. On 31 December 2024, chen was chosen as

, replacing Liu Ning.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Gang Politicians from Yangzhou 1965 births Living people Political office-holders in Beijing Political office-holders in Guizhou Harbin Institute of Technology alumni Peking University alumni Alternates of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Standing Members of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee