Compiled from the following sources:

Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005

People's Daily Online


Revision History:

Biography Revised: 2/1/2018
Career Data Updated: 1/5/2015

PHOTO: Cai Mingzhao
Cai Mingzhao 蔡名照
Member, 19th CPC, Central Committee; Deputy Director, CPC, Central Committee, Propaganda Department; Director, Information Office of the State Council, Central Office for Overseas Publicity and Ideological Work; President, Xinhua News Agency
Born: 1955

Biography

Cai Mingzhao, male, Han nationality, was born in 1955 in Rizhao, Shandong Province. He joined the PLA in 1970 and the CPC in 1974. He graduated from the Chinese language department of Nanjing Teachers University in 1983.

Cai, a specialist in science reporting, served in bureaus of the Xinhua News Agency in Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province before being appointed secretary-general of the Xinhua News Agency in 1993. He was appointed vice-president of the agency in 1998 and executive deputy editor-in-chief in 2000.

Cai has served as the Deputy Director of the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China and the Director of China International Publishing Group from 2001-2009. He is a member of 10th and 11th CPPCC National Committees and in 2009 became Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Cai was member of the 18th CPC Central Committee and is now a member of the 19th CPC Central Committee. In May 2013 he became Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Director of CPC Central Office for Overseas Publicity and Ideological work (Information Office of State Council). He was named President of Xinhua News Agency in Dec. 2014.

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