Tang Guozhong

Tang Guozhong (born in January 1952, Chinese: 唐国忠), born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, is a Chinese politician. He held the position of vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from January 2012 to January 2013.

He became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in October 1974. In the initial phase of his career, Tang served as a sent-down youth in the Shuangjingzi Commune, located in Changtu County, Liaoning Province. He subsequently served at the Shenyang Hoisting and Transportation Machinery Factory, occupying multiple roles such as laborer, publicity officer, security officer, Youth League secretary, and deputy director of the Party office. Subsequently, he held positions as a publicity officer, office secretary, deputy director of the publicity department, and director of the department at the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Electromechanical Industry and the Municipal Machinery Industry Administration Bureau.^[1]

From 1989 onwards, he held the position of department-level secretary in the General Offices of the Liaoning and Henan province governments. In December 1992, he assumed the role of deputy bureau-level researcher at the Policy Research Office of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, thereafter serving as deputy director and deputy secretary-general of the committee's General Office.^[1]

In June 1998, Tang was assigned to Guangdong Province, where he held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CCP and subsequently served as Deputy Head of the Organization Department.^[2][3] In May 2005, he was designated as a member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of the Education Work Committee. He then held the positions of Minister of the Publicity Department and Chairman of the Fujian Federation of Social Sciences, maintaining these duties until September 2011.^[4][5]

In October 2011, Tang assumed the role of Deputy Party Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He held the position of vice chairman of the Guangdong CPPCC from January 2012 to January 2013.^[6]

Tang Guozhong served as a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as to the 9th Guangdong Provincial Party Congress and the 8th Fujian Provincial Party Congress.^[7]