Mao Chaofeng (; born December 1965) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2015 as the executive vice governor of

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

province. He was born in

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province. He joined the

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in 1986. He graduated from the Beijing Meteorological Institute (later merged into

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST; ), colloquially Nan Xin Da () is an elite Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university approved by the Ministry of Education of China, located in northern part of N ...

), where he studied weather forecasting. He worked in his earlier career for the

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. Then he served as mayor of

Jiaozuo Jiaozuo ( ; postal: Tsiaotso) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Henan province, China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yellow River, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the south, Xinxiang to the east, Jiyuan to the ...

, then party chief of

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. In October 2011 he was named a member of the

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of Henan province, entering sub-provincial ranks at age 45; in February 2012 Mao assumed the office of the director of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs commission. In January 2013, he was transferred to become head of the Political and Legal Affairs commission in

province. In January 2015, he was named executive vice governor of Hainan. Mao 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 ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mao, Chaofeng Living people Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology alumni 1965 births People from Shangqiu Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party