'Zhou Yongkang' (b. December 1942) is the
Minister of Public Security of the
People's Republic of China and thus chief of the
Ministry of Public Security and the counterpart of the Director of the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is a
State Councillor and member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China. He was born in
1942 in the city of
Wuxi in
Jiangsu Province. He was mayor of
Panjin in
Liaoning Province from
1983 until
1985.
Career
Born 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 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 also
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People's Republic of China
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Ministry of Public Security
External links
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Zhou Yongkang biography and information
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Zhou Yongkang lifetime history