Liang Tiangeng (; born May 1960) is a Chinese politician currently serving as vice chairman of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the

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. He was an alternate of the

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Biography

Liang was born in Dianbai County (now Dianbai District),

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

, in May 1960. He was a

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between September 1976 and September 1979. After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1979, he entered

South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University (SCAU; ) is a Types of universities and colleges in China, provincial public agricultural university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Guangdong. It is part of the Double Fir ...

, majoring in agricultural economic management. Upon graduation in April 1983, he joined the

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(CCP). After university in 1983, Liang was assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (later was reshuffled as the

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). He stayed there for 25 long years, interspersed with short stays in the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from April 1995 to January 1998 and the Guizhou Provincial Economic System Reform Commission from January 1998 and May 1999. Liang was appointed head of the Organization Department of the CCP Tibetan Autonomous Regional Committee in March 2012 and was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Tibetan Autonomous Regional Committee, the region's top authority. Liang was assigned to the similar position in

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province in December 2014. He also served as president of the CCP Hebei Provincial Party School from June 2017 to October 2020. In January 2020, he was chosen as vice chairman of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the

, the province's top political advisory body.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liang, Tiangeng 1960 births Living people People from Maoming South China Agricultural University alumni Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Guangdong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Guangdong Alternates of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party