Name Chen Gang | Role Born 1966 | |
Chen Gang (Chinese: 陈刚; born May 1966) is a Chinese politician. Chen was born in Chongyang County, Hubei province. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1988. He held a graduate degree in urban planning obtained from Tsinghua University, and a master's degree in engineering. He joined the Communist Youth League while attending university. He has served as assistant to the mayor of Liuzhou, Guangxi, and worked in the urban planning department in that city. He has also served as the deputy director of the Beijing Urban-Rural Planning Commission, and director of the Beijing Urban Planning Commission. He was then made the Vice Mayor of Beijing, and a member of the Beijing Party Standing Committee. He seemed to have a promising political future. In 2017, he was transferred to the office of the South-North Water Transfer Project as a deputy director.
Chen is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.