Zhang Gaoli
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Zhang Gaoli (Chinese: 张高丽; born in Jinjiang, Fujian in April 1946) is the current CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary. Until March 2007 he was the Party Secretary in the economic sprawl of Shandong.
[edit] Biography
Zhang joined the CPC in November 1973, and he is an economist by profession.
From 1997 to 2002 he held prominent leadership positions in the special economic zone of Shenzhen and the provincial government of Guangdong, and was instrumental in the economic development in that region. An economic thinker, Zhang was then entrusted with the economic development of Shandong, where he was the first-in-charge CPC Shandong Committee Secretary.
Before the 17th Party Congress the central leadership moved Zhang in a provincial leadership reshuffle to lead the coastal city of Tianjin. He is believed to be an emerging member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership.
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| Preceded by Li Chunting |
Governor of Shandong 2001–2003 |
Succeeded by Han Yuqun |
| Preceded by Wu Guanzheng |
CPC Shandong Committee Secretary 2002–2007 |
Succeeded by Li Jianguo |
| Preceded by Han Xikai |
Chairman of Shandong People's Congress 2003–2007 |
Succeeded by Li Jianguo |
| Preceded by Zhang Lichang |
CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary 2007– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
