On October 22, the Sixth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress decided to appoint Zhao Gang and Fang Guanghua as Vice Governors of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government.

Zhao Gang previously served as director, general manager and deputy secretary of the party committee of China First Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd.China First Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd. is one of the important state-owned backbone enterprises managed by the central government that involves national security and the lifeline of the national economy. Zhao Gang, born in June 1968, was promoted to the position of deputy general manager and party member of China First Heavy Industry Group in September 2017.The general manager and deputy secretary of the party committee became provincial and ministerial cadres.

Zhao Gang and Fang Guanghua

Fang Guanghua is three years older than Zhao Gang. He was born in January 1965. In 2015, he left college and became an official. He became the deputy mayor of Xi'an.This time, he was promoted from a bureau-level leading cadre to a provincial and ministerial-level leading cadre. His current positions are vice governor of Shaanxi, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, and deputy mayor of Xi'an.

According to the public resume, Fang Guanghua studied in the History Department of Xiangtan University as an undergraduate.After graduating from a bachelor's degree, he was admitted to the Institute of Chinese Thought and Culture of Northwest University. He studied under Zhang Qizhi, a famous Chinese historian and historian of thought.After graduation, he stayed at the school to teach. At the end of 1996, he served as the deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Thought and Culture of Northwest University. At the end of 1999, he was promoted to a professor. In 2006, he became the vice president of Northwestern University.

From 2008 to 2010, Fang Guanghua briefly entered the official career, serving as the deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education for two years, and then returned to Northwest University at the end of 2010 as the president.

After serving as the president of Northwest University for more than four years, in February 2015, Fang Guanghua was transferred to the deputy mayor of the Xi'an Municipal People's Government until this time.

The above resume shows that Fang Guanghua is a leading cadre with a scholar background. Before becoming the vice governor of Shaanxi this time, he worked in colleges and universities for 20 years.

According to the information released by the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, during his work in colleges and universities, Fang Guanghua’s academic research has achieved certain results. He has published monographs such as the history of ancient Chinese ontology thought and Liu Shipei’s biography.Editor-in-chief of the sixth volume, editor-in-chief of the second volume of the 6-volume Chinese history, participated in the writing of academic history of modern Chinese history, academic history of modern Chinese thought and other works, as well as textbooks such as 15 lectures on Chinese history, Chinese traditional culture, and history of Chinese thought and culture.

Among them, the 6 volumes of Chinese history won the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, and the 6 volumes of the history of Chinese thought and theory won the second prize of the Ministry of Education's outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences.

During his tenure at Northwestern University, Fang Guanghua served concurrently as the vice president of the Chinese Society of Religion, an executive director of the Chinese Society for the History of Philosophy, and a member of the Academic Committee of the China Confucius Foundation.During this period, some of his public statements have attracted attention.

According to China Science Daily, Fang Guanghua believes that university presidents need to play three roles: scholar, politician and administrator.The president of a university must have a sense of academics, otherwise he cannot understand the true meaning of academics; at the same time, he must also be a politician with a certain vision, not just confined to the academic field.In addition, the university president should also be a competent administrator.You must learn to maximize the use of various resources of the school under scientific time and place conditions, so as to achieve the sustainable development of the school.

In September 2013, at the opening ceremony of Northwestern University freshmen, Fang Guanghua said in his speech that love, dignity, order and rationality are the source of the brilliance of life.Whether a person's quality of life is improved depends on whether his love is more delicate and rich, whether his dignity is deeper, whether his ability to create harmony is stronger, and whether his rational ability is improved. I hope you will neither follow the crowd nor be self-centered.Know yourself, challenge yourself, fully display your youthful and gorgeous demeanor, and create your sunshine story.

Since becoming the deputy mayor of Xi'an in 2015, Fang Guanghua has been in charge of education, science and technology, and ethnic and religious work.In the past two years, cities in our country have launched a war to attract talents.As the deputy mayor in charge of education, Fang Guanghua was also in charge of an important task in Xi'an's talent introduction campaign--Dream Back to Chang'an - the return of millions of alumni.

From March to April this year, he led a team to Xi'an University of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University and other colleges and universities to connect with the "Dream Back to Chang'an" million alumni return special event, and how each university can promote the implementation and development of alumni return projects.Industry-university-research cooperation, innovation and entrepreneurship have put forward requirements.

Resume of Fang Guanghua

Fang Guanghua, male, Han nationality, born in January 1965 in Yiyang, Hunan, started working in July 1993, a member of the Democratic National Construction Association, a full-time postgraduate degree, a doctorate in history, and a professor.

He has successively served as the deputy director of the Institute of Chinese Thought and Culture of Northwest University, the dean and vice president of the School of Culture and Museology, a member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress, a member of the Internal Affairs and Judiciary Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Education, president of Northwest University, and the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Democratic National Construction AssociationDeputy Chairman (concurrently), Deputy Chairman of the Internal Affairs and Judiciary Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, Vice Mayor of Xi'an, Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce. In October 2018, he served as Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, and Deputy Mayor of Xi'an.

Member of the Thirteenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Resume of Zhao Gang

Zhao Gang, male, Han nationality, born in June 1968 in Xinmin, Liaoning, started working in April 1993, joined the Communist Party of China in June 1987, full-time postgraduate degree, master of engineering, master of business administration for senior management, researcher-level seniorengineer.

He has successively served as the deputy director of the Middle East Division of China North Industries Corporation, the deputy manager of the Middle East Division of the First Department of International Trade, the representative of the representative office in Tehran, Iran, the director of the Human Resources Department, the assistant to the president and the general manager of the R&D department, the vice president, the president, and the deputy secretary of the party committee.Assistant to the general manager, deputy general manager, and member of the party group of China Ordnance Industry Group. In September 2017, he was appointed as the director, general manager, and deputy secretary of the party committee of China First Heavy Machinery Group Corporation. In November 2017, he was appointed as the director and general manager of China First Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd., Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee. In October 2018, he served as the Vice Governor and member of the Party Leadership Group of Shaanxi Province.