Zhang Gaoli (Chinese: ; born in Jinjiang, Fujian in April 1946) is the current CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary. He was the Party Secretary in the economic sprawl of Shandong province until March of 2007.

Biography

Zhang joined the CPC in November 1973, and he is an economist by profession. He was educated at Xiamen University in Xiamen from 1965 to 1970.

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 of 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


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