Wang Qishan, ethnic Han, native of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, born in July 1948. Joined the CPC in February 1983 and began working in January 1969. Graduated from the Department of History of Northwest University, majoring in history. With a university education. Senior economist.

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

1969-1971: Worked as an educated youth sent to the countryside at Fengzhuang People's Commune in Yan'an County, Shaanxi Province.

1971-1973: Worked in Shaanxi Provincial Museum.

1973-1976: Student majoring in history of the Department of History of Northwest University.

1976-1979: Worked in Shaanxi Provincial Museum.

1979-1982: Intern researcher at the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

1982-1986: Division chief, researcher (at the deputy department chief level) and deputy director of the Liaison Office, at the Rural Policy Research Office of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and the Rural Development Research Center under the State Council.

1986-1988: Researcher (at the department chief level) of the Rural Policy Research Office of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, director of the Liaison Office of the Rural Development Research Center under the State Council and concurrently director of the National Office for Pilot Areas of Rural Reform, and acting director and director of the Development Institute of the Rural Development Research Center under the State Council.

1988-1989: General manager and secretary of the Party committee of China Rural Trust and Investment Corporation.

1989-1993: Vice governor of the People's Construction Bank of China and member of its Leading Party Members' Group (attended a workshop run by the Party School of the CPC Central Committee for cadres at the provincial and ministerial level from September to November 1992).

1993-1994: Vice governor of the People's Bank of China and member of its Leading Party Members' Group.

1994-1996: Governor of the People's Construction Bank of China and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

1996-1997: Governor of the Construction Bank of China and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

1997-1998: Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee.

1998-2000: Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and vice-governor of Guangdong Province.

2000-2002: Director of the Office for Economic Restructuring under the State Council and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

2002-2003: Secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of Hainan Provincial People's Congress.

2003-2004: Deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, acting mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

2004-2007: Deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

2007-: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, mayor of Beijing, executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad and deputy secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

Alternate member of the Fifteenth CPC Central Committee. Member of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Central Committees. Member of the Political Bureau of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee.