Guo Jinlong
| Guo Jinlong | |
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| 郭金龙 | |
| Communist Party Secretary of Beijing | |
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Assumed office 3 July 2012 |
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| Deputy |
Wang Anshun (mayor) Cai Qi (mayor) |
| Preceded by | Liu Qi |
| Mayor of Beijing | |
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In office January 26, 2008 – July 25, 2012 |
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| Party Secretary | Liu Qi |
| Preceded by | Wang Qishan |
| Succeeded by | Wang Anshun |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 1947 (age 69) Nanjing, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Alma mater | Nanjing University |
| Profession | Politician |
| Guo Jinlong | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郭金龙 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 郭金龍 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Guō Jīnlóng |
Guo Jinlong (Chinese: 郭金龙; born July 1947) is a Chinese politician, the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing, and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. Between 2008 and 2012 Guo served as the Mayor of Beijing. As the Mayor of Beijing during the 2008 Olympics, Guo served as the executive chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG).
Before his career in Beijing, Guo served as the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region between 2000 and 2004, and Party Secretary of Anhui Province from 2004 to 2007.
Guo Jinlong was born in Nanjing. He graduated from Nanjing University Department of Physics in 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1979, and was sent to work as a technician in Zhong County, Sichuan (later made part of Chongqing municipality), at the local water works department. He also worked as a sports coach, a propaganda instructor, and head of the county education board, before being promoted to county governor. He then worked in the provincial agriculture research office. In 1987, he gained his first political office, as deputy party chief of Leshan, then in 1990 he was made party chief of Leshan.
In December 1993, Guo left Sichuan, where he had worked for over twenty years, and headed to Lhasa to serve as the Deputy Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and was promoted to become the Secretary from 2000 to 2004. As the leading official in Tibet at the time, Guo played a leading role in the Qinghai-Tibet Railway project.
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