BEIJING - The following is the biographical sketch of Hu Chunhua:

Hu Chunhua, born in April 1963, is a male ethnic Han from Wufeng, Hubei Province. He entered the workforce in August 1983 and joined the CPC in April 1983. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University.

He is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee, and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional People's Congress.

1979-1983 Student, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

1983-1984 Cadre, Organization Department, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

1984-1985 Worked at Tibet Youth Daily

1985-1987 Member, Party Committee; deputy head, Human Resources Department; deputy secretary, Party Committee; and manager, Human Resources Department; of Tibet Hotel

1987-1992 Deputy secretary (deputy director-general level from February 1990), CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

1992-1992 Deputy commissioner, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region

1992-1995 Secretary, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

1995-1997 Deputy secretary, Party Committee; and commissioner; of Lhoka Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region (1996-1997: took a one-year training course for young and middle-aged cadres, Central Party School)

1997-2001 Member, Secretariat, CYL Central Committee; vice chairman, All-China Youth Federation (appointed in November 1998) (1996-1999: studied world economy in an in-service postgraduate program, Graduate School, Central Party School; September - November 2000: attended a workshop for cadres at the provincial and ministerial level, Central Party School)

2001-2003 Member, Standing Committee; and secretary-general; of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

2003-2005 Deputy secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee; executive vice chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region

2005-2005 Executive deputy secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee; executive vice chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region

2005-2006 Executive deputy secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

2006-2008 First secretariat, CYL Central Committee

2008-2009 Deputy secretary, CPC Hebei Provincial Committee; acting governor; and governor; of Hebei Province

2009-2010 Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

2010-2012 Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee; chairman, Standing Committee, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional People's Congress

2012- Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee; secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee; chairman, Standing Committee, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional People's Congress

Member, Seventeenth and Eighteenth CPC Central Committees; member, Political Bureau, Eighteenth CPC Central Committee.