Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

1961-1966: Student of inorganic engineering at Inorganic Chemical Engineering Department, Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering.

1966-1967: Stayed at the Institute waiting for job assignment.

1967-1978: Technician, director and Party branch secretary of the synthesizing workshop of Lu'nan Chemical Fertilizer Plant, Shandong Province.

1978-1980: Deputy director and deputy chief engineer of Lu'nan Chemical Fertilizer Plant, Shandong Province.

1980-1982: Director of the Control Office, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Industry, Shandong Province.

1982-1984: Deputy director general, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Industry, Shandong Province.

1984-1986: Director general, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Industry, Shandong Province.

1986-1987: Member of the Standing Committee of Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and deputy secretary of the Ji'nan Municipal Party Committee.

1987-1991: Member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, and secretary of the Ji'nan Municipal Party Committee.

1991-1996: Vice-minister of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and deputy secretary of the Ministry's Leading Party Members' Group.

1996-1997: Deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and acting governor of Fujian Province.

1997-1999: Deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and governor of Fujian Province.

1999-2002: Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee.

2002-2007: Member of the Political Bureau and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

2007-: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Alternate member of the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth CPC Central Committees, member of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC Central Committees, member of the Political Bureau and Secretariat of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee, member of the Political Bureau of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee and member of its Standing Committee. Elected as member, member of the Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.