Hu Chunhua is elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Oct. 25, 2017. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Hu Chunhua:

Hu Chunhua, male, Han ethnicity, was born in April 1963 and is from Wufeng, Hubei Province. He began his first job in August 1983 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1983. He graduated from Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University where he completed an undergraduate program.

Hu is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee.

2012- Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee

2010-2012 Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional People's Congress

2009-2010 Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

2008-2009 Deputy Secretary, CPC Hebei Provincial Committee

Acting Governor and Governor, Hebei Province

2006-2008 First Secretary, CYL Central Committee Secretariat

2005-2006 Executive Deputy Secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

2005 Executive Deputy Secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

Executive Vice Chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region Government

2003-2005 Deputy Secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

Executive Vice Chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region Government

2001-2003 Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

1997-2001 Member, CYL Central Committee Secretariat

Vice Chairman, All-China Youth Federation

Took a continuing studies course for provincial- and ministerial-level officials at the Central Party School (Sep-Nov 2000)

Attended an in-service graduate program in world economy at Graduate School, Central Party School (1996-1999)

1995-1997 Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Commissioner, Lhoka Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region

Took a one-year training course for young and middle-aged officials, Central Party School (1996-1997)

1992-1995 Secretary, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

1992 Deputy Commissioner, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region

1987-1992 Deputy Secretary, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee (deputy director general level from Feb 1990)

1985-1987 Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Head of the Human Resources Department, Tibet Hotel

Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Manager of the Human Resources Department, Tibet Hotel

1984-1985 Worked at Tibet Youth Daily office

1983-1984 Staff member, Organization Department, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee

1979-1983 Studied at Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University

Member, 17th through 19th CPC Central Committees

Member, Political Bureau, 18th and 19th CPC Central Committees