Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier.

Zeng Peiyan, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, was born in December 1938. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in September 1978 and started to work in September 1962. He graduated from the Electronics Faculty of the Radio and Electronics Department of Tsinghua University; with a university education, he holds the professional title as senior engineer (research fellow in rank).

1956-1962: Student majoring in electronics of the Radio and Electronics Department of Tsinghua University.

1962-1964: Technician of the Shanghai Electrical Appliances Institute of the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry and chief of the Research Project Group of the Institute.

1964-1965: Technician and group leader of the Rectifier Research Office of the Xi'an Switch and Rectifier Factory under the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.

1965-1982: Group leader, deputy head of the office and deputy chief engineer of the Xi'an Rectifier Institute under the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.

1982-1984: Second secretary and first secretary of the Commercial Counselor's Office of the Chinese Embassy in the United States.

1984-1987: Head of the General Office and concurrently director-general of the Planning and Construction Department of the Ministry of Electronics Industry.

1987-1988: Vice-minister of Electronics Industry and member of the Ministry's Leading Party Member Group and concurrently director-general of the Ministry's Planning and Construction Department.

1988-1991: Vice-minister of Machine-Building and Electronics Industry and member of the Ministry's Leading Party Member Group (Studied at the Central Party School from September 1989 to November 1989).

1991-1992: Vice-minister of Machine-Building and Electronics Industry, deputy secretary of the Ministry's Leading Party Member Group and concurrently member of the Leading Party Member Group of the China Electronics Industrial Corporation.

1992-1993: Deputy secretary-general (ministerial rank) of the Central Economic and Financial Leading Group and vice-minister of the State Planning Commission.

1993-1994: Deputy secretary general of the Central Economic and Financial Leading Group and vice-minister of the State Planning Commission and deputy secretary of the Commission's Leading Party Member Group.

1994-1998: Deputy secretary general of the Central Economic and Financial Leading Group and minister in charge of the State Planning Commission and deputy secretary of the Commission's Leading Party Member Group.

1998-2001: Deputy secretary general of the Central Economic and Financial Leading Group and minister in charge of the State Development Planning Commission and secretary of the Commission's Leading Party Member Group and deputy director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee under the State Council (May1998) and director of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Western China Development (January 2000).

2001-2002: Deputy secretary-general of the Central Economic and Financial Leading Group and minister in charge of the State Planning and Development Commission and secretary of the Commission's Leading Party Members Group, deputy leader of the State Council Leading Group for Informationization, head of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Informationization and secretary of the Office's Leading Party Member Group (October 2001), deputy director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee under the State Council and head of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Western China Development.

2002-2003: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Deputy secretary-general of the Central Economic and Financial Leading Group and minister in charge of the State Development Planning Commission and secretary of the Commission's Leading Party Members' Group, deputy leader of the State Council Leading Group for Informationization, head of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Informationization and secretary of the Office's Leading Party Members' Group (October 2001), deputy director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee under the State Council and head of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Western China Development.

2003-: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier, deputy leader of the State Council Leading Group for Informationization, head of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Informationization and secretary of the Office's Leading Party Members' Group (October 2001), deputy director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee under the State Council and head of the office of the State Council Leading Group for Western China Development.

He served as an alternate member of the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees and is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee and member of the Political Bureau of the 16th CPC Central Committee.