| Office1: | President of Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | December 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Bai Chunli | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Office2: | Vice-President of Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | March 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | December 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Liu Weiping | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor2: | Yin Hejun | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Office3: | Party Branch Secretary of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start3: | June 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End3: | March 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Office4: | Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Guangxi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start4: | November 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End4: | June 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor4: | Li Ke | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor4: | Sun Dawei | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Office5: | President of the University of Science and Technology of China | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start5: | September 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End5: | January 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor5: | Zhu Qingshi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor5: | Wan Lijun | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hou Jianguo | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 侯建国 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Fuqing, Fujian, China | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Chemist, politician | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | University of Science and Technology of China | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hou Jianguo (; born October 1959) is a Chinese chemist and politician. He served as party secretary of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine from 2017 to 2018. An accomplished research scientist, Hou is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences. He formerly served as president of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and has extensive international work experience.
Hou was born in Fuqing County, Fujian. He joined the workforce in October 1976 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1985. He is a graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and holds a master's degree in condensed matter physics. Between 1988 and 1995, he conducted research into crystallography and chemistry at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, and at the University of California, Berkeley and Oregon State University.
In 1995, he became a professor at USTC - in charge of the Structural Science Research Lab and dean of the Physics and Chemistry department. In 2000, he was named vice president of the university. In November 2003, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In November 2004, he became a member of The World Academy of Sciences. In September 2005, he was named executive vice president of the USTC, and promoted to president in 2008. On January 24, 2015, he became Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.[1]
In November 2016, he was named deputy party chief of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.[2]
In June 2017, he was named party branch secretary and deputy director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
In March 2018, he became vice-president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, rising to president in December 2020.[3]