Wang Qishan is elected vice president of China at the ongoing first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 17, 2018. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Qishan:

Wang Qishan, male, Han ethnicity, was born in July 1948 and is from Tianzhen, Shanxi Province. He began his first job in January 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in February 1983. Wang graduated from the University Regular Class at the Department of History at Northwest University, China, with a major in history. He is a senior economist.

He is currently Vice President of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

2018- Vice President, PRC

2013-2017 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

2012-2013 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Vice Premier, State Council

Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

2011-2012 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Vice Premier, State Council

Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

2008-2011 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Vice Premier, State Council

Member, Leading Party Members Group of the State Council

Chairman, Organizing Committee for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo

2007-2008 Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

2004-2007 Deputy Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee

Mayor, Beijing

Executive Chairman and Leading Party Members Group Deputy Secretary, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

2003-2004 Deputy Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee

Acting Mayor, Beijing

Executive Chairman and Leading Party Members Group Deputy Secretary, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

2002-2003 Secretary, CPC Hainan Provincial Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of Hainan Provincial People's Congress

2000-2002 Director and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, the Office for Economic Restructuring of the State Council

1998-2000 Member, Standing Committee of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee

Vice Governor, Guangdong Province

1997-1998 Member, Standing Committee of CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee

1996-1997 Governor and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, China Construction Bank

1994-1996 Governor and Leading Party Members Group Secretary, People's Construction Bank of China

1993-1994 Vice Governor and member of Leading Party Members Group, People's Bank of China

1989-1993 Vice Governor and member of Leading Party Members Group, People's Construction Bank of China

Took a continuing studies course for Provincial- and Ministerial-level Cadres, Central Party School (Sep-Nov 1992)

1988-1989 General Manager and Party Committee Secretary of China Rural Trust and Investment Corporation

1986-1988 Research fellow at the bureau level, Rural Policy Research Office, CPC Central Committee Secretariat.

Director, Liaison Office, Rural Development Research Center, State Council

Director, National Office for Pilot Areas of Rural Reform

Acting Director and Director, Development Institute, Rural Development Research Center, State Council

1982-1986 Section chief, research fellow at the deputy bureau level and Deputy Director of the Liaison Office, Rural Policy Research Office, CPC Central Committee Secretariat and Rural Development Research Center, State Council

1979-1982 Intern researcher, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

1976-1979 Worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum

1973-1976 Studied history at Department of History, Northwest University, China

1971-1973 Worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum

1969-1971 Educated youth, Fengzhuang Commune, Yan'an County, Shaanxi Province

Alternate member, 15th CPC Central Committee

Member, 16th, 17th and 18th CPC Central Committees

Member, Political Bureau, 17th CPC Central Committee

Member, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, 18th CPC Central Committee

Member, Standing Committee member and Secretary, 18th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Elected Vice President of PRC at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress.