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Biography

Zhang Jingan, male, Han nationality, was born in 1949, and graduated from Beijing Normal University in 1978.

Zhang served successively as squad leader, company commander and staff officer of the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps and then served as secretary of the Communist Youth League of the People's University of China in 1978. He held several posts at the State Science and Technology Commission, where he served as director of the research center in 1998. He also served as division chief of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency. Zhang held positions at the Ministry of Science and Technology, where he served as director-general of the reform department, and he was elected as chief of the Science and Technology Daily in 2005. In December 2010, he was resigned from post of president of the Science and Technology Daily Press.