BEIJING -- The following is the biographical sketch of Wu Bangguo:

Wu Bangguo, male, ethnic Han, native of Feidong, Anhui Province, born in July 1941. Joined the CPC in April 1964 and began working in September 1966. Graduated from the Department of Radio and Electronics of Tsinghua University, majoring in electronic vacuum devices. With a university education. Engineer.

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group.

1960-1967 Student of electronic vacuum devices at the Department of Radio and Electronics, Tsinghua University

1967-1976 Worker and technician of Shanghai No. 3 Electronic Tube Factory, deputy chief and chief of its technical section

1976-1978 Deputy secretary of the Party committee, deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee, deputy factory director, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and factory director of Shanghai No. 3 Electronic Tube Factory

1978-1979 Deputy manager of Shanghai Electronic Components Company

1979-1981 Deputy manager of Shanghai Electronic Vacuum Devices Company

1981-1983 Deputy secretary of the Party committee of Shanghai Meters and Telecommunications Bureau

1983-1985 Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and concurrently secretary of the CPC Municipal Committee in charge of science and technology

1985-1991 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1991-1992 Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1992-1994 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1994-1995 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee

1995-1997 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and vice premier of the State Council

1997-1998 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council

1998-1999 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council, and secretary of the Central Large Enterprises Work Committee

1999-2002 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Members' Group, and secretary of the Central Large Enterprises Work Committee

2002-2003 Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Members' Group, and secretary of the Central Large Enterprises Work Committee

2003- Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress and secretary of its Leading Party Members' Group

Alternate member of the Twelfth and Thirteenth CPC Central Committees. Member of the Fourteenth through Seventeenth CPC Central Committees. Member of the Political Bureau of the Fourteenth CPC Central Committee. Co-opted as member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Fourteenth CPC Central Committee. Member of the Political Bureau of the Fifteenth CPC Central Committee. Member of the Political Bureaus of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC Central Committees and member of their standing committees. Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress.