Wang Huning -- Member of Standing Committee of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee

Wang Huning is elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Oct. 25, 2017. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Huning:

Wang Huning, male, Han ethnicity, was born in October 1955 and is from Laizhou, Shandong Province. He began his first job in February 1977 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1984. Wang graduated from Department of International Politics, Fudan University where he completed a graduate program in international politics and was awarded a Master of Law degree. He is a professor.

Wang is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, a member of CPC Central Committee Secretariat, Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, and Director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform.

2017- Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Member, CPC Central Committee Secretariat

Director, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

Director, Office of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform

2014-2017 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Director, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

Director, Office of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform

2012-2014 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Director, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

2007-2012 Member, CPC Central Committee Secretariat

Director, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

2002-2007 Director, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

1998-2002 Deputy Director, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

1995-1998 Head, Politics Division, Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee

1994-1995 Dean, Law School, Fudan University

1989-1994 Dean, Department of International Politics, Fudan University

1981-1989 Teacher; Associate Professor; and Professor, Department of International Politics, Fudan University

1978-1981 Attended a Master's degree graduate program in international politics, Department of International Politics, Fudan University

1977-1978 Staff member, Shanghai Municipal Publishing Bureau

1972-1977 Attended a foreign languages training course at Officials School, Shanghai Normal University

Member, 16th through 19th CPC Central Committees

Member, Secretariat, 17th CPC Central Committee

Member, Political Bureau, 18th CPC Central Committee

Member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, and Secretariat, 19th CPC Central Committee