Gao Guangbin Explained

Office1:Communist Party Secretary of Changchun
Term Start1:May 2007
Term End1:December 2015
Predecessor1:Wang Rulin
Successor1:Wang Junzheng
Gao Guangbin
Birth Place:Harbin, Heilongjiang
Residence:Changchun, Jilin
Party:Chinese Communist Party
Profession:Optical instrument engineer
Alma Mater:Changchun University of Science and Technology
Native Name Lang:zh

Gao Guangbin (; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician, the current Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Jilin province. He was part of the Communist Youth League in his early career.

Life and career

Gao was born in Harbin. He studied optical instrument engineering at Changchun Optical College (later Changchun University of Science and Technology). He began working for the provincial school of the Communist Youth League in Jilin province, then became Secretary (i.e. leader) of the provincial Youth League organization in 1997. He then served as deputy party chief, vice mayor, acting mayor, and finally mayor of Songyuan, before being elevated to party chief of Tonghua in April 2004. In May 2007, at age 43, Gao was named a member of the Jilin provincial Party Standing Committee and party chief of the provincial capital Changchun.[1] He served in the position for some eight years, before being transferred to become Executive Vice Governor of Jilin province, taking on the vacancy left by Ma Junqing. In March 2017, he was named deputy party secretary of Jilin province.

Gao was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He is an alternate member of the 18th and 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012-05-01. 高广滨任长春市委书记. Tencent.