Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ), male, Han nationality, is the Premier of the State Council of P. R. China, a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee, and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee.

Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) was born in Tianjin ( 天津市 ), China in September, 1942. He joined in the famous NankaiHigh School from where the ex-premier Zhou Enlai ( 周恩来 ) graduated. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1965 and began working in September 1967.

As a postgraduate and an engineer, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 )graduated from the specialty of geological structure of Beijing Institute of Geology. Having studied geomechanics in Beijing, he began his career in the Gansu geology bureau; from 1968-1978, he presided over the Geomechanics Survey Team under the Gansu Provincial Geological Bureau and head of its political section. Rising as chief of the Gansu Provincial Geological Bureau and later as minister for the natural resources sector of the economy, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) would rise through the ranks of the Politburo Central Committee in the 1980s and 1990s. Wen Jiabao's move from Gansu to Beijing occurred while the party, then under the leadership of General Secretary Hu Yaobang ( 胡辉邦 ), was conducting a talent search; Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) was quickly promoted to serve as the deputy in the Party's Central Office. He remained in the post for eight years.

Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) is the only Standing Committee member to have served under three party secretariats: Hu Yaobang ( 胡辉邦 ), Zhao Ziyang ( 赵紫阳 ), and Jiang Zemin ( 江泽民 ). Outgoing Premier Zhu Rongji ( 朱熔基 ) showed his esteem for Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) by entrusting him, from 1998, with the task of overseeing agricultural, financial and environmental policies, considered crucial as China prepared to enter the World Trade Organization.

As premier, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) has overseen China's economic reforms and has been involved in shifting national goals from economic growth at all costs to growth which also emphasizes more egalitarian wealth, along with other social goals, such as public health and education. In addition, the Chinese government under Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) has begun to focus on the social costs of economic development, which include damage to the environment and to worker's health. This more comprehensive definition of development has been encapsulated into the idea of a xiaokang society. Wen's broad range of experience and expertise, especially cultivated while presiding over agricultural policies under Zhu Rongji ( 朱熔基 ) has been important as the "fourth generation" seeks to revitalize the rural economy in regions left out by the past two decades of reform.

Regarded as quiet and unassuming, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) is said to be a good communicator and is known as a "man of the people." Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) has appeared to make great efforts to reach out those who seem left out by two decades of stunning economic growth in rural and especially western China.

Mild-tempered and conciliatory, especially compared to his predecessor, the tough, straight-talking Zhu Rongji ( 朱熔基 ), Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) has his own consensual management style, which has enabled him to generate a great deal of good will and little hostility in Beijing.

Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) has been involved in a two major episodes involving public health. In early 2003, he was involved in ending official inaction over SARS. In November 2003, he became the first major Chinese official to publicly address the problem of AIDS, which has devastated parts of the provinces of Yunnan and Henan and threatens to be a major burden on Chinese development. Since May 2004, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) made various visits to communities devastated by AIDS. By showing these actions, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) appeared to be attempting to reverse years of actions which many activists have seen as a policies of denial and inaction. Furthermore, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) is concerned about the health and safety of previous drug addicts; since March 2004, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) had visited several drug addict treatment facilities in southern China and addressed the issue to the patients in person.

Wen Jiabao's many visits to relatively poor areas of China's countryside were conducted randomly -- to avoid elaborate preparations to appease officials and hide the real situation, which is done often in China. At committee meetings of the State Council, Wen made it clear that the rural wealth problem must be addressed. Along with President Hu Jintao ( 胡锦涛 ), a plan of Three Nong's was made. Like his predecessor, Zhu Rongji ( 朱熔基 ), Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) is generally seen as a popular communist official with China's public.

Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) is also seen by many as an able diplomat. In December 2003, Wen visited the United States of America for the first time. During the trip, Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) was able to get President George W. Bush to issue what many saw as a mild rebuke to the President of the Republic of China, Chen Shui-bian ( 陈水扁 ).

Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) was a member of the 13th CPC Central Committee, an alternate member of the Secretariat of the 13th CPC Central Committee, a member of the 14th CPC Central Committee, an alternate member of the Politburo of the 14th CPC Central Committee and a member of the Secretariat of the 14th CPC Central Committee. He was a member of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the 15th CPC Central Committee.

Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ) serves as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the 16th CPC Central Committee. He has also taken the post of secretariat of the Financial Work Committee of the 16th CPC Central Committee. He is also a premier of the State Council and a member of its Leading Party Group.

Career Data of Wen Jiabao ( 温家宝 ):

1960 - 1965: Student, Beijing Institute of Geology, No. 1 Department of Geology and Minerals (Majored in geological surveying and prospecting.)

1965: Joined, CPC

1965 - 1968: Student, Beijing Institute of Geology, BeijingMunicipality (Postgraduate major in geological structure)

1968 - 1978: Technician and Political Instructor, Ministry of Land and Resources, Provincial Geological Bureau, Geomechanics Survey Team, GansuProvince

1978 - 1979: Member, CPC, Party Committee, Ministry of Land and Resources, Provincial Geological Bureau, Geomechanics Survey Team, GansuProvince

1978 - 1979: Deputy Head, Ministry of Land and Resources, Provincial Geological Bureau, Geomechanics Survey Team, GansuProvince

1979 - 1981: Deputy Section Head; Engineer, Ministry of Land and Resources, Provincial Geological Bureau, GansuProvince

1981 - 1982: Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Land and Resources, Provincial Geological Bureau, GansuProvince

1982 - 1983: Director, Ministry of Land and Resources, Policy and Law Research Office

1982 - 1983: Member, CPC, Leading Party Group, Ministry of Land and Resources, Policy and Law Research Office

1983 - 1985: Vice-Minister, Ministry of Land and Resources

1983 - 1985: Member and Deputy Secretary, CPC, Leading Party Group, Ministry of Land and Resources

1985 - 1986: Deputy Director, 12th CPC, Central Committee, General Office

1986 - 1992: Director, 13th CPC, Central Committee, General Office

1987 - 1992: Member, 13th CPC, Central Committee

1987 - 1992: Alternate Member, 13th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo, Secretariat

1987 - 1992: Secretary, 13th CPC, Central Committee, Work Committee of Central Government Departments

1992 - 1997: Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee

1992 - 1997: Alternate Member; Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo

1992 - 1993: Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo, Secretariat

1992 - 1993: Director, 14th CPC, Central Committee, General Office

1992 - 1993: Secretary, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Work Committee of Central Government Departments

1997 - 2002: Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee

1997 - 2002: Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo, Secretariat

1997 - 2002: Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo

1998 - 2003: Vice-Premier, State Council

1998 - ????: Member, CPC, Leading Party Group, State Council

1998 - 2002: Secretary, CPC, Central Committee, Work Committee Departments, Financial Work Committee

2002: Member, 16th CPC, Central Committee

2002 - : Member, 16th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo

2002 - : Member, 16th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo, Standing Committee

2003 - : Premier, State Council