Hao Peng (; born July 1960) is a Chinese politician and business executive, currently serving as Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning and Chairman and

Party Committee Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC). He served as the

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

province between 2013 and 2016, and prior to that, a Vice Chairman of

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Career

Education and industry

Hao Peng is a native of

Fengxiang County Fengxiang District (), formerly, Fengxiang County and its ancient name is Yong county (雍县), is a district administered by Baoji City in the west of Shaanxi province, China. The county covers an area of and as of 2004 had a population of 510, ...

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see #Name, § Name) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichu ...

province. He entered the work force in January 1976 as a

sent-down youth The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (), also known as the ''zhiqing'', were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the ...

in Weiyuan County,

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

province. After the

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, in October 1978 Hao entered

Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU; ) is a national key public research university in Xi'an, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The university is a Chinese national Class A Double ...

Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by #Name, other names, is the list of capitals in China, capital of Shaanxi, Shaanxi Province. A Sub-provincial division#Sub-provincial municipalities, sub-provincial city o ...

, Shaanxi, majoring in aircraft manufacturing. He joined the

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in March 1982 and graduated in July 1982. After university Hao Peng joined the

Aviation Industry Corporation of China Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

, working at its

flight control system A conventional Fixed-wing aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft flight control system consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction ...

factory in

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, Gansu. He started as a technician, becoming the Director of the factory in 1994, a position he held for five years.

Government

In February 1999 Hao Peng began his government career, becoming the Deputy Director of the Economic and Trade Committee of Gansu province. In August 2000 he was appointed Vice Mayor of the provincial capital Lanzhou. Hao Peng was transferred to

in November 2003, where he was appointed Vice Chairman (governor). In 2006 he was promoted to Deputy

Communist Party Chief A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

and Executive Vice Chairman of Tibet. In March 2013 Hao Peng was transferred again, to become the Deputy Communist Party Chief and Acting Governor of neighbouring

province. He succeeded the outgoing governor

Luo Huining Luo Huining (; born 5 October 1954) is a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party who is Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong. A native of Yiwu, Zhejiang, he was previously the Governor, then Party S ...

, who had been appointed the provincial party chief. In April Hao was officially elected Governor by the Qinghai Provincial Congress. In December 2016, he was appointed as the CCP Secretary of the

State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council. It was founded in 2003 through the consolidation of variou ...

. He was also appointed the Chairman of SASAC in May 2019. In November 2022 Hao Peng was transferred to become the Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning. Hao is an alternate member of the

18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 18th National Congress on 15 November 2012, and sat in plenary sessions until the communing of the 19th National Congress in 2017. It was formally proceeded by the 17t ...

, and a full member of the 19th Central Committee.

References

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