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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Zhongguo Gongchandang Lijie Zhongyang Weiyuan Dacidian, 1921-2003
Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi chubanshe 2004
Biography Revised: 3/18/2008
Career Data Updated: 3/18/2008
Biography
Du Qinglin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Panshi, Jilin Province. He was born in 1946, entered the workforce in 1964 and joined the CPC in 1966. Du holds a master's degree.
Du spent the first 30 years of his career in Jilin Province. His government jobs were in heavy industry and teachers training, and his Party jobs were in the CYLC and in the Jilin City Party organization. By 1988, he was deputy secretary of the CPC Jilin Provincial Committee. Du was transferred to Hainan in 1992 as deputy secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee. In 1998, he became secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee. Du was made Minister of Agriculture in 2001.
Du was an alternate member of the 14th CPC Central Committee and a member of the 15th and 16th CPC Central Committees. He served as secretary of the Sichuan CPC Provincial Committee from 2006 - 2007.
He is now a member of the 17th CPC Central Committee and Head of United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee. He is also a Vice-Chairman of the 11th National Committee of the CPPCC.
