12 Facts About Guo Jinlong

Guo Jinlong is a Chinese politician, who served as the Vice Chairman of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.

Between 2008 and 2012 Guo served as the Mayor of Beijing, and Party Secretary of Beijing between 2012 and 2017.

Guo Jinlong joined the Chinese Communist Party in April 1979.

In December 1993, Guo Jinlong left Sichuan, where he had worked for over twenty years, and headed to Lhasa to serve as the Deputy Party Secretary of the CCP Tibet Autonomous Region, and was promoted to become the Secretary from 2000 to 2004.

In October 2000, the fifth plenary session of the fifteenth CCP Central Committee held in Beijing, the theme of which was to study the proposals for the Tenth Five-Year Plan, and on October 10, during a group discussion, Guo Jinlong argued for the inclusion of the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in China's Tenth Five-Year Plan.

Guo Jinlong left Tibet to serve as the party chief of Anhui province in 2004, and Chairman of the Standing Committee of Anhui People's Congress from 2005.

Guo Jinlong spent the first six months of his tenure conducting research in various places, and he lived in a guest house with his family for about half-year.

Guo Jinlong served as Executive President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

On July 3,2012, a few months before the 18th Party Congress, Guo Jinlong was named party chief of Beijing.

On May 27,2017, Guo Jinlong left his post of Beijing party chief to Cai Qi.

Guo Jinlong was then duly appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization.

Guo Jinlong was the alternate member of 15th CCP Central Committee and member of 16th, 17th, and 18th Central Committees.