Ding Xuexiang is a Chinese politician who is currently the first vice premier of the People's Republic of China and the sixth-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
12 Facts About Ding Xuexiang
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Ding Xuexiang has been leader of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs since March 2023.
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Ding Xuexiang served as the director of the General Office of the CCP between 2017 and 2023.
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Ding Xuexiang was a member of the 19th Party Politburo, and a Secretary of the Party Secretariat between 2017 and 2022.
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Ding Xuexiang was born in Nantong, Jiangsu province, on 13 September 1962.
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Ding Xuexiang graduated from the Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute in Qinghuangdao, later renamed Yanshan University, in 1982 with a degree in engineering.
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Ding Xuexiang got his first job at the Shanghai Research Institute of Materials from 1982 to 1999, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1984.
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Ding Xuexiang received a master's degree in public administration from Fudan University's School of Management in 1993.
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Ding Xuexiang's rise to the Politburo was achieved primarily by climbing the ranks of the party.
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Ding Xuexiang moved up the ranks of the party apparatus in Shanghai, finishing off his time in the city as Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee in 2013.
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Ding Xuexiang joined the Politburo and the Secretariat of the CCP in October 2017, as the director of the CCP General Office, and remained his post of the CCP General Secretary's office director.
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Ding Xuexiang succeeded Han Zheng as the first vice premier of China and leader of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs in March 2023.