Zhang Dejiang, ethnic Han from Tai'an, Liaoning Province, born in November 1946. He joined the CPC in January 1971 and graduated from the Department of Economics, Kim Il Sung University in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council and member of its Leading Party Members' Group and Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee.

1968-70: Educated youth, Taiping Brigade, Luozigou Commune, Wangqing County, Jilin Province

1970-72: Administrative secretary, Publicity Group; and Secretary, CYL branch of the Wangqing County Revolutionary Committee, Jilin Province

1972-75: Student of Korean language, Department of Korean Language, Yanbian University

1975-78: Deputy Secretary, General Party Branch, Department of the Korean Language; member, Standing Committee, Party Committee; and Vice Chairman, Revolutionary Committee; Yanbian University

1978-80: Student, Department of Economics; Secretary, Party Branch of Chinese Students at Kim Il Sung University, DPRK

1980-83: Member, Standing committee, Party Committee; Vice President of Yanbian University

1983-85: Deputy Secretary, CPC Yanji Municipal Committee; member, Standing Committee, CPC Yanbian Prefectural Committee; and concurrently Deputy Secretary, CPC Yanji Municipal Committee in Jilin Province

1985-86: Deputy Secretary, CPC Yanbian Prefectural Committee, Jilin Province

1986-90: Vice Minister and Deputy Secretary, Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs

1990-95: Deputy Secretary, CPC Jilin Provincial Committee; Secretary, CPC Yanbian Prefectural Committee

1995-98: Secretary, CPC Jilin Provincial Committee; Chairman, Standing Committee, Jilin Provincial People's Congress

1998-2002: Secretary, CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

2002-07: Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee; Secretary, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee

2007-08: Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee

2008-12: Member, Political Bureau, CPC Central Committee; Vice Premier and member, Leading Party Members' Group of the State Council; and concurrently Secretary, CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee (March 2012)