Zeng Qinghong

Zeng Qinghong (Chinese曾庆红/曾庆红, Zeng Qinghong Pinyin ) ( born 1939 ) is a Chinese politician.

From 2003 to 2008 he was Vice President of the People 's Republic of China and thus representative of Hu Jintao.

Zeng Qinghong is counted as a son of a general of the early revolutionary period and one of the participants of the Long March to the group of descendants of influential party veterans. His political career is closely linked to the Jiang Zemin, with whom he was already in its Shanghai time in close contact.

Biography

Zeng Qinghong was born 1939 in Ji'an county in Jiangxi Province. At the age of 21, he entered in 1960 in the Communist Party of China a. After completing his studies at the Beijing Industrial Institute in the Department of Programmable Logic Controller as an engineer in 1963, he worked as a technician in the People's Liberation Army and technicians under the 7th Engineering Department. In 1969, he made ​​physical work in Guangzhou and in the province of Hunan, before returning in 1970 technicians under the 7th Engineering Department. Three years later he was a technician in the production department and later in the Science and Technology Division of the Beijing Office for national defense industry.

Zeng Qinghong was in 1979 secretary in the main office of the State Planning Commission in 1981 deputy head of department at the head office of the National Energy Commission in 1986 and deputy party secretary of Shanghai. In 1997 he was appointed director of the Central Committee headquarters. He then worked 1999-2002 as director of the Central Committee Organization Department before he became vice president of the People's Republic of China.