Xue Jinwen, male, Han nationality, is a native of Yanggao, Shanxi Province. He was born in 1956 and graduated from the History Department of Nankai University in 1982 with a specialty in world history.
Xue served in numerous capacities at Nankai University after his graduation, working as the director of the student department and deputy Party secretary of the economic college. In 1989, he traveled to Japan to study modern Japanese education at Waseda University for one year.
Upon his return to China, Xue relocated to Tianjin where he accepted the deputy Party secretary position with Tianjin Technical College. In the 1990s, he shifted to the Tianjin Education Health and Industry Committee where he became deputy secretary. He then became deputy chief of the Tianjin Education Committee.
In 2002, he became Party secretary of Nankai University.