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Biography

Zhang Xiaogang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province. He was born in 1954, started to work in 1970 and joined the CPC in March 1973. In 1977, Zhang graduated from Wuhan University. He earned a Master Degree from Northeast University, and a Ph.D from China Iron& Steel Research Institute (CISRI). He is also senior engineer. After had been serving for Angang Steel Company more than three decades, Zhang became an expert in metallurgy and had profoundly mastered the most modern technology in steel and metallurgical industry. He served as member of the expert panel for National 863 and 973 projects. Zhang currently serves as a member of the expert panel of the China Standardization Committee, president of the Chinese Society of Metals & Steel Rolling, chairman of International Organization for Standardization ISO/PC17/SC17, and director of the Chinese Low Alloy Steel Academic Committee.

He was an alternate member of the 17th CPC Central Committee. He is now Chairman of the Board of the Angang Steel Group Company and a member of the 18th CPC Central Committee Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. In 2013 he became president of the International Organization for Standardization.