China Vice
premier, Member of Standing Committee, Political
Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central
Committee; and deputy secretary of CPC.
Li Keqiang,
born in July 1955, is a male ethnic Han from Dingyuan,
Anhui
Province. He entered the workforce in March 1974 and
joined the CPC in May 1976. He graduated from the School of
Economics at Peking University with a major in economics,
has an in-service postgraduate education and holds the
degree of Doctor of Economics.
1974-1976 Educated youth, Dongling Brigade, Damiao Commune,
Fengyang County, Anhui Province
1976-1978 Secretary, Party Branch, Damiao Brigade, Damiao
Commune, Fengyang County, Anhui Province
1978-1982 Student, Department of Law; and leader, Students'
Union of Peking University
1982-1983 Secretary, Committee of the Communist Youth League
(CYL), Peking University; member, Standing Committee, CYL
Central Committee
1983-1985 Director, School Department, CYL Central
Committee; secretary-general, All-China Students'
Federation; alternate member, Secretariat, CYL Central
Committee
1985-1993 Member, Secretariat, CYL Central Committee; vice
chairman, All-China Youth Federation (09/1991-11/1991:
student of a further studies course for provincial and
ministerial level officials at Central Party School)
1993-1998 First member, Secretariat, CYL Central Committee;
president, China Youth University for Political Sciences
(1988-1994: studied economics in an in-service postgraduate
program at the School of Economics at Peking University, and
awarded the degrees of Master of Economics and Doctor of
Economics)
1998-1999 Deputy secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee;
acting governor,
Henan
Province; and concurrently director,
Yellow River Flood Control Headquarters
1999-2002 Deputy secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee;
governor, Henan Province; and concurrently director, Yellow
River Flood Control Headquarters
2002-2003 Secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee;
governor, Henan Province; and concurrently director, Yellow
River Flood Control Headquarters
2003-2004 Secretary, CPC Henan Provincial Committee;
chairman, Standing Committee, Henan Provincial People's
Congress
2004-2005 Secretary, CPC
Liaoning
Provincial Committee
2005-2007 Secretary, CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee;
chairman, Standing Committee, Liaoning Provincial People's
Congress
2007-2008 Member, Standing Committee, Political Bureau, CPC
Central Committee
2008-2012 Member, Standing Committee, Political Bureau, CPC
Central Committee; vice premier of the State Council and
deputy secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group;
director of Three Georges Project Construction Committee and
of South-to-North Water Diversion Construction Project
Committee, State Council
Member,
Fifteenth through Eighteenth CPC Central Committees; member,
Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, Seventeenth and
Eighteenth CPC Central Committees; member, Standing
Committee, Eighth NPC.
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