Zhou Yongkang
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Zhou Yongkang (Chinese: 周永康; Pinyin: Zhōu YǒngKāng; born December 1942) . Zhou currently serves as the 9th ranked member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, State Councilor, and the head of the Central Political and Legislative Committee, an organ specialized in legal crackdowns and political control. He is a State Councillor and member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was mayor of Panjin in Liaoning Province from 1983 until 1985, was served prominently as the Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China and thus chief of the Ministry of Public Security from 2002 to 2007. BiographyBorn in December 1942, Zhou Yongkang is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In November 1964 he joined the CPC and entered the workforce in September 1966. He graduated from the Survey and Exploration Department of Beijing Petroleum Institute majoring in geophysical survey and exploration. As a university graduate he holds the title Senior Engineer with a rank equivalent to that of Professor. During the 1960s and 70s he spent most of his career in the oil sector and by the mid-1980s he was vice minister of the Petroleum Industry and from 1996 General Manager of China National Petroleum Corporation. In 1998 he was Minister of Land and Resources and in 1999, secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee. He is currently chief Minister of Public Security. See alsoExternal links
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