Wang Qishan elected as mayor of Beijing (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-02-21 13:34
Wang Qishan was elected on Saturday morning as
mayor of Beijing at the second session of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's
Congress that opened on Monday.
Wang Qishan, newly-elected mayor of
Beijing [China Daily]
Wang was made acting
mayor of Beijing on April 22 last year in accordance with a decision made by the
Standing Committee of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's Congress.
According to Chinese laws, the standing committee of the people 's congress
at the local level is authorized to appoint local officials up to the position
of deputy heads. Only the annual plenary session of the people's congress is
entitled to elect head of the local government.
Wang, born in July 1948, was a native of Tianzhen in Shanxi Province, north
China. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1983.
In 1969, Wang was sent to the countryside to work as a farmer in neighboring
Shaanxi Province. He served the Shaanxi Provincial Museum in 1971-1973,
graduated from the History Department of Northwest China University in 1976, and
began to work in the Institute of Modern Chinese History of the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences in 1979.
Wang worked in the rural policy and development research centers of the
Secretariat of CPC Central Committee and the State Council between 1982 and
1986.
Wang served as general manager and Party secretary of the China Rural Trust
and Investment Company in 1988. He was appointed as vice president of the
Construction Bank of China in 1989, and became vice governor of the People's
Bank of China in 1993 and president of the Construction Bank of China in 1994.
He was elected president of the Chinese Investment Society in 1995.
In 1997, Wang became a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong
Provincial Committee, and was elected vice governor of Guangdong Province in
1998.
Wang was appointed director of the Economic Restructuring Office of the State
Council in 2000, and secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee in
2002-2003. He was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hainan
Provincial People's Congress in January 2003.
Wang was made acting mayor of Beijing and deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing
Municipal Committee in April 2003.
Wang is chairman of the organizing committee for the Beijing Olympic Games
slated for 2008.
He is an alternate member of 15th CPC Central Committee and member of 16th
CPC Central Committee.