China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
The 11th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security, outwardly known as the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR; ; ) under an arrangement called " one institution with two names", is a set of research institutes operate ...
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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(CPPCC), and a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee (NC-CPPCC).
Early life
Geng was born in Laoting County, Hebei province. He reportedly has a college degree.
Intelligence career
China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
In 1985 Geng became deputy director of the American Research Department of the
China Institute of Contemporary International Relations
The 11th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security, outwardly known as the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR; ; ) under an arrangement called " one institution with two names", is a set of research institutes operate ...
(CICIR), a think tank which constitutes the 11th bureau of the Ministry of State Security (MSS). He was promoted to president in 1990, and retained this position until 1993.
He also served as deputy director general of the China International Culture Exchange Center (CICEC).
During his time at CICIR Geng held the title of "Professor" and studied Islamic fundamentalism in Asia.
Deputy Minister of State Security
In September 1998 he became deputy minister of the Ministry of State Security under Jiang Zemin. He was involved in security preparations for the
2008 Summer Olympics
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, and traveled to Greece in March 2006 in order to study how Greece handled security at the
2004 Olympic Games
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Minister of Public Order
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Georgios Voulgarakis
Georgios Voulgarakis () (born 4 June 1959 in Heraklion) is a Greek politician and the former Minister for Mercantile Marine, Aegean Sea and Island Policy.
Voulgarakis was born in Cretememorandum on security issues was signed.
10th National People's Congress
The 10th National People's Congress () was in session from 2003 to 2008. It held five plenary sessions in this period. There were 2,984 deputies to this Congress. It succeeded the 9th National People's Congress.
The 1st Session
The Congres ...
selected Geng to become Minister of State Security, allegedly following predecessor
Xu Yongyue
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's recommendation to Jiang Zemin, head of one of China's primary political factions. In March 2008, he was officially appointed Minister of State Security at the first session of the
11th National People's Congress
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.
Rising through the ranks of the MSS under Jiang Zemin in the late 1990's, Geng became a political ally of
Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, an ...
, who promoted him to minister so he could consolidate his own power. As an international relations specialist and an expert on the United States,
Japan
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and
industrial espionage
Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.
While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governmen ...
, Geng was the first Minister of State Security with a background in international politics rather than internal security.
In August 2011 Geng visited Nepal in order to develop their bilateral relations. In September 2012 Geng was part of a delegation led by Zhou Yongkang to Singapore, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. In Singapore, he attended the opening ceremony of the Singapore-China Social Management Forum at St. Regis Hotel.
Beginning in January 2010 Geng has also been a member of the
National Energy Commission
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, a
State Council State Council may refer to:
Government
* State Council of the Republic of Korea, the national cabinet of South Korea, headed by the President
* State Council of the People's Republic of China, the national cabinet and chief administrative auth ...
-established body designed to improve the coordination of China's energy industry.
As MSS director he was also a statutory member of the
Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (), commonly referred to as ''Zhongyang Zhengfawei'' (中央政法委, literally "Central Poli-Legal Commission") in Chinese, is the organization under the Central Committee of the Chinese Commu ...
.
He was a member of the
17th
17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number.
Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers.
In mathematics
17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...
and
18th
18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19.
In mathematics
* Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...