Zhou Qiang

Zhou Qiang (Chinese周强, Pinyin Zhou Qiang, born 1960 in Huangmei, Hubei Province) is a politician in the People's Republic of China.

Zhou joined the Communist Party of China in 1978. He graduated from 1978 to 1985 to study at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing which he graduated with the degree of Master. After that, he worked for ten years in the Ministry of Justice.

His political career began Zhou as secretary of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China in 1995. Between 1998 to 2006 he was the successor of its First Secretary Li Keqiang. His successor in that office is Hu Chunhua.

In 2006 he moved to the post of governor of Hunan Province. In 2010 he was promoted to party secretary of the province. As governor Xu Shousheng followed him.

In 1998 he was elected a member of the National People's Congress which he belongs since then. He was from 1998 to 2003 Member of the committee for internal and legal affairs.

He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China since 2002.

In 2013 he became president of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China.