Chen Gang (born 1965)
Chen Gang (Chinese: 陈刚; born April 1965) is a Chinese politician currently serving as the Communist Party Secretary of Guiyang, and a member of the Guizhou Provincial Party Standing Committee.
Biography
Chen was born in Gaoyou, Jiangsu province, near Yangzhou. He attended Yangzhou Teacher's College between 1980 and 1984, where he studied chemistry. He then attended graduate school at Harbin Institute of Technology, majoring in applied chemistry and polymer materials. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1986. In 1987, he began studying for his doctorate degree in inorganic chemistry at Peking University. Beginning in 1990, he worked at the Beijing Glass Research Institute. In July 1994, he was promoted to deputy director of the research institute, and vice president at Beijing Yiqing Group. In July 2000, he became the deputy head of the commission on foreign trade and commerce of Beijing. In 2003, he took on his first political office, becoming deputy party chief of Chaoyang District, then district governor (confirmed in January 2004).
In October 2006, he was named party chief of Chaoyang District; in July 2012 he was named to the Beijing Party Standing Committee, along with, by sheer coincidence, another person with an identical name, who was vice mayor. To disambiguate the two at routine meetings, Chen Gang (1966) was known as "Chen Gang (government)", and Chen Gang (1965) was known as "Chen Gang (Chaoyang District)". In June 2013 he was transferred to Guizhou to serve on the provincial standing committee, and then he was named party chief of the provincial capital Guiyang in 2013.[1]