Alice Miller Hoover Institution
CHINA’S NATIONAL PARTY LEADERSHIP (1 January 2008) CCP General Secretary: HU JINTAO胡锦涛 (66)* CCP Central Military Commission Chairman: HU JINTAO 胡锦涛 (66) CCP Discipline Inspection Commission: HE GUOQIANG 贺国强 (65)
CCP POLITBURO Standing Committee (9 members, rank order) HU JINTAO 胡锦涛 (66) PRC president; chairman, CCP & PRC CMC [Anhui, hydraulic eng]. WU BANGGUO 吴邦国 (67) Chairman, National People’s Congress [Anhui; electrical eng]. WEN JIABAO 温家宝 (66) State Council premier [Tianjin; geology]. JIA QINGLIN 賈庆林 (68) Chairman, CPPCC [Hebei; electrical eng.]. LI CHANGCHUN 李长春 (64) Supervises ideology-propaganda system. [Liaoning; electrical eng.]. XI JINPING 习近平 (55) Executive secretary, Secretariat; president, Central Party School. [Shaanxi; chemical engineering; LL.D.; Marxist theory] LI KEQIANG 李克强 (53) [Anhui; Ph.D. economics.] HE GUOQIANG 贺国强 (65) Chairman, Central Discipline Inspection Comm. [Hunan; chem. eng.]. ZHOU YONGKANG 周永康 (66) Supervises legal-security work. State councilor. [Jiangsu; geophysics]. Regular Members (16 members, stroke order) WANG GANG 王刚 (66) Central Committee Organs Work Committee sec’y. [Jilin; philosophy]. WANG LEQUAN 王乐泉 (64) Secretary, Xinjiang UAR CP Committee. [Shandong]. WANG ZHAOGUO 王兆国 (67) Exec. vice chairman, NPC SC; president, ACFTU [Hebei; power eng.]. WANG QISHAN 王崎山 (60) [Shanxi; history]. HUI LIANGYU 回良玉 (64) Vice premier. [Jilin; economics]. LIU QI 刘淇 (66) Secretary, Beijing CP Committee [Jiangsu; metallurgical eng.]. LIU YUNSHAN 刘云山 (61) Secretariat; director; CCP Propaganda Dept [Shanxi]. LIU YANDONG 刘延东 (63) [Jiangsu; political science; LL.D]. LI YUANCHAO 李源潮 (58) Secretariat; director, CCP Organization Dept. [Jiangsu; LL.D.]. WANG YANG 汪洋 (53) Secretary, Guangdong CP Committee. [Anhui; Masters, engineering]. ZHANG GAOLI 张高丽 (62) Secretary, Tianjin CP Committee. [Fujian; economics]. ZHANG DEJIANG 张德江 (63) [Liaoning; economics]. YU ZHENGSHENG 俞正声 (63) Secretary, Shanghai CP Committee [Zhejiang; missile eng.]. XU CAIHOU 徐才厚 (65) Vice chairman, CCP CMC. [Liaoning; electrical eng.]. GUO BOXIONG 郭伯雄 (66) Vice chairman, CPC CMC [Shaanxi; PLA Mil Acad]. BO XILAI 薄熙来 (59) Secretary, Chongqing CP Comm. [Shanxi; MA, international journalism].
CCP SECRETARIAT XI JINPING 习近平 (55) Politburo Standing Committee LIU YUNSHAN 刘云山(61) Politburo; director, CPC Propaganda Dept. LI YUANCHAO 李源潮 (58) Politburo; secretary, Jiangsu CP Committee. [Jiangsu; LL.D.]. HE YONG 何勇 (68) Deputy sec’y, CDIC. [Hebei; machine eng.]. LING JIHUA 令计划 (52) Director, CPC General Office. [Shanxi; MBA]. WANG HUNING 王沪宁 (53) Director, CC Policy Research Office. [Shandong; internat’l pols.].
* Numbers in parentheses indicate age attained during the year 2008. Home province and university degree, if any, are in brackets. Alice Miller Hoover Institution
RETIRED ELDERS WAN LI 万里 (92) SONG PING 宋平 (91) ZHANG ZHEN 张震 (94) QIAO SHI 乔石 (84) ZHANG WANNIAN 张万年 (80) LIU HUAQING 刘华清 (90) LI PENG 李鹏 (80) LI RUIHUAN 李瑞环 (74) HONG XUEZHI 洪学智 (96) LI LANQING 李岚清 (76) WEI JIANXING 尉健行 (77) JIANG ZEMIN 江泽民 (82) DING GUAN’GEN 丁关根 (79) TIAN JIYUN 田纪云 (79) QIAN QICHEN 钱其琛 (80) CHI HAOTIAN 迟浩田 (79) ZHU RONGJI 朱鎔基 (80) JIANG CHUNYUN 姜春云 (78) ZENG QINGHONG (69) WU GUANZHENG (70) LUO GAN (73) CAO GANGCHUAN (73) WU YI (70) ZHANG LICHANG (69) ZENG PEIYAN (70)
CHINA’S NATIONAL STATE LEADERSHIP PRC President: HU JINTAO胡锦涛(66) PRC Vice President: *ZENG QINGHONG 曾庆红 (69) Chairman, PRC Central Military Commission HU JINTAO 胡锦涛 (66) PRC National People’s Congress Standing Committee Chairman: WU BANGGUO 吴邦国(67) President, Supreme People’s Court: *XIAO YANG 萧扬 (70) President, Supreme People’s Procuratorate: *JIA CHUNWANG 贾春旺 (70) Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Chairman: JIA QINGLIN 賈庆林(68)
STATE COUNCIL Premier: WEN JIABAO温家宝 (66) Politburo Standing Committee Vice Premiers *WU YI 吴仪 (70) *ZENG PEIYAN 曾培炎 (70) HUI LIANGYU 回良玉 (64) State Councilors ZHOU YONGKANG 周永康 (66) Politburo Standing Committee. *CAO GANGCHUAN 曹刚川 (73) Minister of National Defense. *TANG JIAXUAN 唐家璇 (70) HUA JIANMIN 华建民 (68) CHEN ZHILI 陈至立 (66)
CHINA’S NATIONAL MILITARY LEADERSHIP
CPC CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSIONS** Chairman: HU JINTAO 胡锦涛 (66) CPC general secretary; PRC president. Vice chairmen: GUO BOXIONG 郭伯雄 (66) Politburo. XU CAIHOU 徐才厚(65) Politburo. Members: LIANG GUANGLIE 梁光烈 (68) CHEN BINGDE 陈炳德 (67) Chief general staff, PLA General Staff Dept. LI JINAI 李继耐 (66) Director, General Political Dept. LIAO XILONG 廖锡龙 (68) Director, PLA General Logistics Dept. CHANG WANQUAN 常万全 (59) Director, General Armament Dept. JING ZHIYUAN 靖志远 (64) Commander, 2nd Artillery Corps. WU SHENGLI 吴胜利 (63) Commander, PLA Navy XU QILIANG 许其亮 (58) Commander, PLA Air Force
*Expected to retire at the 11th National People’s Congress in March 2008. **PRC CMC membership remains as it was before the 17th CCP Congress until the 11th NPC in March 2008, when membership will align with that of the CCP CMC.