Cai Qi 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 Cai Qi:

Cai Qi, male, Han ethnicity, was born in December 1955 and is from Youxi County, Fujian Province. He began his first job in March 1973 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in August 1975. Cai graduated from School of Economics and Law, Fujian Normal University where he majored in political economy. He completed an in-service graduate studies and holds a Doctor of Economics degree.

Cai is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, Chairman and Secretary of Leading Party Members Group of the Organizing Committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

2017- Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau

Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee

Chairman and Secretary of Leading Party Members Group, Organizing Committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

2017 Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee

Chairman and Secretary of Leading Party Members Group, Organizing Committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

2016-2017 Deputy Secretary, CPC Beijing Municipal Committee

Acting Mayor and Mayor, Beijing

Executive Chairman and Deputy Secretary of Leading Party Members Group, Organizing Committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

2015-2016 Executive Deputy Director (minister level), General Office of the National Security Commission of the CPC Central Committee

2014-2015 Deputy Director, General Office of the National Security Commission of the CPC Central Committee

2013-2014 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

Vice Governor, Zhejiang Province

2010-2013 Member, Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

Head, Organization Department of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee

2007-2010 Deputy Secretary, CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, Zhejiang Province

Mayor, Hangzhou

2004-2007 Secretary, CPC Taizhou Municipal Committee, Zhejiang Province

2002-2004 Secretary, CPC Quzhou Municipal Committee, Zhejiang Province

Chairman, Standing Committee of the Quzhou Municipal People's Congress

1999-2002 Deputy Secretary, CPC Quzhou Municipal Committee, Zhejiang Province

Mayor, Quzhou

Attended a doctoral program in political economy at School of Economics and Law, Fujian Normal University and was awarded a Doctor of Economics degree (1998-2001)

1997-1999 Deputy Secretary, CPC Sanming Municipal Committee, Fujian Province

Deputy Mayor and Mayor, Sanming

1996-1997 Deputy Secretary, CPC Sanming Municipal Committee, Fujian Province

Attended a Master's program at School of Economics and Law,Fujian Normal University (1994-1997)

1993-1996 Deputy Director and member of Executive Meeting, General Office of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Took a training course for prefectural- and director general-level officials at the Central Party School (Mar-Jul 1996)

Deputy Secretary, CPC Sanming Municipal Committee, Fujian Province (on secondment, 1994-1996)

1992-1993 Deputy Director, Party Building Office of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

Member of Executive Meeting, General Office of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

1991-1992 Deputy Director, Political Structural Reform Office of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

1987-1991 Office secretary (director level), General Office of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

1983-1987 Staff member and Deputy Director, General Affairs Office of the General Office of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee

1978-1983 Staff member, General Office of the Party Committee, Fujian Normal University

1975-1978 Studied ideological and political education at Department of Ideological and Political Education, Fujian Normal University

1973-1975 Educated youth, Xiyang Commune, Yong'an County, Fujian Province

Member, 19th CPC Central Committee

Member, Political Bureau, 19th CPC Central Committee