Ma Jiantang appointed head of National Bureau of Statistics
23/9/2008 17:51
Ma Jiantang, former vice governor of China's northwestern province of
Qinghai, has been appointed head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS),
according to the website of the bureau.
The former NBS head, Xie Fuzhan, was
transferred to head the Research Office of the State Council at the end of
May.
Born in April 1958 in Binzhou of eastern China's Shandong Province, Ma
Jiantang graduated from the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences. He joined the Communist Party of China in July 1983.
Ma served as
deputy head of the market department of the Development Research Center of the
State Council from August 1993 to January 1995, and then as head of the macro
regulation department of the center between January 1995 and April 1996.
He
was deputy secretary-general of the State Economic and Trade Commission between
May 2002 and March 2003, and deputy secretary-general of the Assets Supervision
and Administration Commission of the State Council from March 2003 to February
2004.
Ma was appointed vice governor of Qinghai in December
2004.
Xinhua
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