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2017 In China
Events from the year 2017 in China. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – Xi Jinping * President of the People's Republic of China, President – Xi Jinping * Vice President of the People's Republic of China, Vice President – Li Yuanchao * Premier of the People's Republic of China, Premier – Li Keqiang * Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Congress chairman – Zhang Dejiang * Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Consultative Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng Governors * Politics of Anhui, Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying * Politics of Fujian, Governor of Fujian Province – Yu Weiguo (until 2 January), Tang Dengjie (starting 2 January) * Gansu, Governor of Gansu Province – Lin Duo (until 11 April), Tang Renjian (starting 11 April) * Politics of Guangdong, Governor of Guangdong Province – Tang Renjian * Politics of Guizhou, ...
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ...
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Gansu
Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Tibetan and Loess Plateau, Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia's Govi-Altai Province, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south and Shaanxi to the east. The Yellow River passes through the southern part of the province. Part of Gansu's territory is located in the Gobi Desert. The Qilian Mountains, Qilian mountains are located in the south of the Province. Gansu has a population of 26 million, ranking List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, 22nd in China. Its population is mostly Han Chinese, Han, along with Hui people, Hui, Dongxiangs, Dongxiang and Tibetan people, Tibetan minorities. The most common language is Mandarin. Gansu is among the poorest administrative divi ...
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Politics Of Henan
The politics of Henan Province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China. The Governor of Henan is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Henan. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Henan Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Henan CCP Party Chief". List of the CCP Party chiefs List of governors # Wu Zhipu: 1949–1962 # Wen Minsheng: 1962–1967 # Liu Jianxun: 1968–1978 # Duan Junyi: 1978–1979 # Liu Jie: 1979–1981 # Dai Suli (acting): 1981–1982 # Yu Mingtao (acting): 1982–1983 # He Zhukang: 1983–1987 # Cheng Weigao: 1987–1990 # Li Changchun: 1990–1993 # Ma Zhongchen: 1993–1998 # Li Keqiang: 1998–2003 # Li Chengyu: 2003–2008 # Guo Gengmao: 2008–2013 # Xie Fuzhan: 2013–2016 # Chen Run'er: 2016–2019 # Yin Hong: 2019–2021 ...
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Lu Hao (born 1967)
Lu Hao (; born 21 June 1967) is a Chinese economist and politician, serving as party branch secretary and director of the Development Research Center of the State Council since June 2022. Previously, he was the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the youngest provincial governor in China, as the Governor of Heilongjiang from 2013 to 2018. Lu has also served as the first secretary of the Communist Youth League, and vice-mayor of Beijing. Early life and education Lu was born in Xi'an, but traces his ancestry to Shanghai (some sources say he was born in Shanghai). His father was a university professor. Lu was an only child. He attended Xi'an No. 85 High School. In high school, Lu played volleyball and was captain of the school team for three years in a row. In school, his favourite subjects were history and politics. He consistently ranked as one of the top three students in his classes.
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Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers). The province is bordered by Jilin to the south and Inner Mongolia to the west. It also shares a border with Russia ( Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai and Zabaykalsky Krai) to the north and east. The capital and the largest city of the province is Harbin. Among Chinese provincial-level administrative divisions, Heilongjiang is the sixth-largest by total area, the 20th-most populous, and the second-poorest by GDP per capita after only Gansu province. The province takes its name from the Amur river which marks the border between the People's Republic of China and Russia. Heilongjiang has significant agricultural production, and raw materials, such as timber, oil, and coal. Etymology ...
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Xu Qin
Xu Qin (; born October 1961) is a Chinese politician, and the current Party Secretary of Heilongjiang. Previously he had served as governor of Hebei, and before that, mayor, then Party Secretary of Shenzhen, China's most prominent special economic zone. Career Xu Qin was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, in 1961. He was admitted to the Beijing Institute of Technology in October 1978 to study photoelectric engineering. After graduating in 1982, he was assigned by the state to Factory 559 (later part of Norinco), a military contractor, to conduct scientific research with military applications. He returned to BIT two years later to study for a master's degree. In 1987, after obtaining his master's, he joined the National Planning Commission (the antecedent of the National Development and Reform Commission), embarking on a career as a public servant with technical skills. Xu worked for the next twenty years in the economic planning system, supporting state-run industrie ...
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Zhang Qingwei
Zhang Qingwei (; born 7 November 1961) is a Chinese politician, business executive, and aerospace engineer, who is a vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He was formerly the Party Secretary of Hunan, the Party Secretary of Heilongjiang, Governor of Hebei, and chairperson of the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). Prior to his government career he was president of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and chairman of Comac, an aerospace manufacturer. Zhang was well known for his work for military contractors, and headed the team that designed and constructed the Xian JH-7 "flying leopard" combat aircraft. He was also the deputy leader of the project to send a Chinese man into space, and the leader of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, '' Chang'e 1''. In 2009, Zhang was named one of China's 40 most powerful people by ''BusinessWeek''. Early life and education Zhang ...
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Politics Of Hebei
The politics of Hebei Province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China. The Governor of Hebei is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Hebei. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Hebei Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Provincial Committee Secretary. Secretaries of the CCP Hebei Committee Governors of Hebei # Yang Xiufeng (): August 8, 1949 – November 15, 1952 # Lin Tie (): November 15, 1952 – April 16, 1958 # Liu Zihou (): April 16, 1958 – January 19, 1967 # Li Xuefeng (): February 3, 1968 – January 24, 1971 # Liu Zihou (): January 24, 1971 – December 26, 1979 # Li Erzhong (): February 6, 1980 – June 16, 1982 # Liu Bingyan (): August 10, 1982 – April 28, 1983 # Zhang Shuguang (): April 28, 1983 – May 4, 1986 # Xie Feng (): May 4, 1986 – May 3, 1988 #Yue Qifeng (): May 3, 1988 – ...
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Shen Xiaoming
Shen Xiaoming (; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician who is currently the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Hunan. A pediatrician by training, Shen rose through the ranks in the health and education bureaucracy of Shanghai. He successively served as party chief of Pudong and vice minister of education. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the Governor of Hainan, and as Hainan's party secretary from 2020 to 2023. Life and career Shen was born in Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province. He attended Wenzhou Medical College and obtained a degree in pediatrics Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, Adolescence, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many o .... He then attended Shanghai Jiaotong University and obtained a doctoral degree in pediatric medicine. After graduating he became the deputy head and then head of the ...
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Politics Of Hainan
The politics of Hainan Province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China. The Governor of Hainan is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Hainan. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Hainan Chinese Communist Party Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Hainan CCP Party Chief". List of the CCP Hainan committee secretaries List of governors of Hainan # Liang Xiang: 1988–1989 # Liu Jianfeng (): 1989–1993 #Ruan Chongwu: 1993–1998 #Wang Xiaofeng: 1998–2003 # Wei Liucheng: 2003–2007 # Luo Baoming: 2007 – August 2011 # Jiang Dingzhi: August 2011 – January 2015 # Liu Cigui: January 2015 – April 2017 # Shen Xiaoming: April 2017 – December 2020 # Feng Fei: December 2020 – April 2023 # Liu Xiaoming: April 2023 – present List of chairmen of Hainan People's Congress # ...
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Shen Yiqin
Shen Yiqin (; born 15 December 1959) is a Chinese politician of Bai ethnic heritage who is currently a state councilor and President of the All-China Women's Federation since 2023. She previously served as the Party Secretary of Guizhou, a province in southwestern China, between November 2020 and December 2022. Shen is the third female provincial-level party chief since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 after Wan Shaofen and former Vice Premier Sun Chunlan. Early life and education Shen was born in Zhijin County, Guizhou. Shen belonged to a group of sent-down youth in the latter years of the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution ended, she began studying history at Guizhou University. After graduating, she was sent to work for the provincial party school in Guizhou as a lecturer. She later became a human resources manager there. In 1998, she became vice president of the Guizhou party school. In 1999, she became Vice Chair of the Guizhou ...
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Politics Of Guizhou
The politics of Guizhou in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China. The Governor of Guizhou is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Guizhou. However, in the province's dual party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Guizhou Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Provincial Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Guizhou CCP Party Chief". List of provincial-level leaders CCP Guizhou Committee Secretaries Chairpersons of Guizhou People's Congress # Xu Jiansheng (徐健生): 1980–1983 # Wu Shi (吴实): 1983–1985 # Zhang Yuhuan (张玉环): 1985–1993 # Liu Zhengwei (刘正威): January 1993–July 1993 # Liu Yulin (刘玉林): July 1993 – January 1994 # Wang Chaowen (王朝文): 1994–1998 # Liu Fangren (刘方仁): January 1998 – November 2002 # Qian Yunlu (钱运录): January 2003 – December 2005 # Shi Zongyuan (石宗源): J ...
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