Zheng Bijian, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fushun, Sichuan Province. He was born in 1932 and joined the CPC in 1952. He completed postgraduate studies in political economics at People‘s University of China in 1954.
Zheng has conducted Party-oriented research for the state government, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Party. He was deputy chief for the theory group of Mao Zedong Works editing committee at the CPC Central Committee in the late 1970s. He was later deputy director-general of the international affairs research center at the State Council in the late 1970s. In 1988, he served a four year stint as the vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He concurrently worked as the director for the research institute for Marxism, Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought at the academy.
Following his academy positions, Zheng became deputy head of the publicity department at the CPC Central Committee. He is executive vice-president of the Party school of the CPC Central Committee.