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 of the 18th CCP Central Committee and is a member of the 19th CCP 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 sou ...

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 ...

in January 1956. In the heyday of the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...

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 China, People's Republic of China between the mid-1950s and 1978. As a result of what he p ...

, he became a sent-down youth and worked in Baishan Commune of Lishu County, in

northeast China Northeast China () is a geographical region of China, consisting officially of three provinces Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, the largest plain in China with an area of over . The regi ...

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

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP). 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, 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 19 March 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 the 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 Alternates of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese hydrologists Ministers of water resources of the People's Republic of China Members of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference