Huai Jinpeng


Huai Jinpeng is a Chinese computer scientist and politician. He is the current party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Huai was born in Harbin but traces his ancestry to Jinan, Shandong province. He graduated from Jilin University of Industry in 1984. He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1986, and began work in September 1987 after obtaining a computer science master's degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology. In November 1993, he earned a doctorate from Beihang University. In December 2000, he was named deputy party chief and vice president of Beihang University. In May 2009, he was promoted to president of the university, obtaining vice-minister level rank. In 2009 he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Science.
In February 2015, Huai was named Deputy Minister of Information Technology. In December 2016, Huai was named deputy party chief of Tianjin. In September 2017, Huai was transferred to become party secretary of the China Association for Science and Technology.
Huai is a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress and a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.