About Zhao Leji
Zhao Leji (born 8 March 1957) is a Chinese politician who is the current chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), behind Xi Jinping, the CCP general secretary, and Li Qiang, the premier. In his earlier political career, he served as the party secretary of Qinghai, the party secretary of Shaanxi, and the head of the Organization Department of the CCP. He entered the CCP Politburo in 2012 and was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee five years later. Between 2017 and 2022, he was the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's top anti-corruption body. == Early life == Zhao Leji was born in Xining, Qinghai province, on 8 March 1957. His parents were from Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The family moved to Qinghai as part of the aid programs in frontier regions under the leadership of Mao Zedong. In 1974, during the later years of the Cultural Revolution, Zhao worked at an agricultural commune in Guide County as a sent-down youth. After working there for about a year, Zhao returned to the city to become a communications assistant at the Commerce Department of the Qinghai provincial government. Zhao joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1975 and entered Peking University in 1977 as a Worker-Peasant-Soldier student; he received an undergraduate degree of philosophy there in January 1980. He then spent three years teaching at the Qinghai School of Commerce, holding various positions such as instructor, secretary of the Communist Youth League (CYL) wing of the provincial department of commerce, as well as the deputy head of the dean's office.
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