Cong Liang (; born December 1971) is a Chinese politician who is the currently a deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council. He was previously the director of the

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from July 2022 to August 2023, and the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission from April 2023 to July 2024..

Biography

Cong was born in Wendeng County (now Wendeng District of

Weihai Weihai (), formerly called Weihaiwei (), is a prefecture-level city and major seaport in easternmost Shandong province. It borders Yantai to the west and the Yellow Sea to the east, and is the closest Chinese city to South Korea. Weihai's popula ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

, in December 1971. In 1994, he graduated from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

majoring in the Department of Mechanical Engineering before gaining a master's degree in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from the Central University of Finance and Economics in 1997. He attended the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences where he obtained his doctor's degree in economics in 2003. Beginning in April 1997, he served in several posts in the State Planning Commission (later renamed National Development and Reform Commission), becoming secretary-general in February 2009 and deputy director in June 2020. On June 23, 2022, he was appointed director of the

(NFSRA), succeeding

Zhang Wufeng Zhang Wufeng (; born October 1960) is a former Chinese politician who served as director of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration from 2018 to 2022. As of June 2022 he was under investigation by China's top anti-corruption agenc ...

, who was placed under investigation for "serious violations of laws and regulations" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China, on June 16. In April 2023, he was appointed as a deputy director of the NDRC. In August 2023, he was succeeded by Liu Huanxin as the director of the NFSRA. On 5 July 2024, he was removed as a NDRC deputy director and was appointed as a deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cong, Liang 1971 births Living people People from Wendeng Tsinghua University alumni Central University of Finance and Economics alumni Chinese Academy of Social Sciences alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong Delegates to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Alternate members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party