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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Biography Revised: 11/11/2009
Career Data Updated: 11/11/2009
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.
Career Data
| 2009— | Deputy Director, 17th CPC, Central Committee, Propaganda Department | |
| 2008— | Member, 11th CPPCC, National Committee | |
| 2003—2008 | Member, 10th CPPCC, National Committee | |
| 2001—2009 | Deputy Director, Information Office of the State Council | |
| 2001— | Director, China International Publishing Group | |
| 2000— | Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Xinhua News Agency | |
| 1998— | Vice-President, Xinhua News Agency | |
| 1993—1998 | Secretary-General, Xinhua News Agency | |
| Director, Xinhua News Agency, Jiangsu Bureau Jiangsu Province | ||
| Deputy Director, Xinhua News Agency, Jiangsu Bureau Jiangsu Province | ||
| Correspondent, Xinhua News Agency, Jiangsu Bureau Jiangsu Province | ||
| 1983 | Graduate, Nanjing Teachers University, Chinese Language Department Jiangsu Province, Nanjing City | |
| 1974 | Joined, CPC | |
| 1970 | Joined, PLA |
