Tang Zhixiang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Dong'an, Hunan Province. He was born in 1945, joined the CPC in 1973, started to work in August 1970, and obtained a college degree.
Tang has focused his career on import export law and foreign trade. He began his career as deputy director of the Lingling Prefectural Import & Export Company. He later served as deputy magistrate of Wangcheng county and deputy secretary of the county's CPC committee. In the late 1980s he worked as the 1st vice-chairman of the Hunan branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.
He later became deputy governor of Hunan Province.