Name Huai Peng | ||
Huai Jinpeng (Chinese: 怀进鹏; born December 1962) is a Chinese academic, computer scientist, and politician, and current Deputy Party Secretary of Tianjin.
Huai was born in Harbin but traces his ancestry to the Jinan area of Shandong province. He graduated from Jilin University of Industry (now merged into Jilin University) in 1984. He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1986, and began work in September 1987 after obtaining a computer science master's degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology. In November 1993, he earned a doctorate from Beihang University. In December 2000, he was named deputy party chief and vice president of Beihang University. In May 2009, he was promoted to president of the university, obtaining vice-minister level rank. In 2009 he was also named a fellow at the Chinese Academy of Science.
In February 2015, Huai was named Deputy Minister of Information Technology.
In December 2016, Huai was named deputy party chief of Tianjin. In September 2017, Huai was transferred to become party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
Huai is a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress.