The record of the youngest provincial and ministerial official in the country was refreshed twice in the second half of 2018.Yang Jinbai (born in April 1973), the new vice chairman of the Guangxi Autonomous Region government, became the youngest provincial and ministerial official in the country, succeeding Li Bo (born in July 1972), who was promoted to vice chairman of the China Federation of Overseas Chinese in August.So far, since 2018, seven cadres born in the 1970s have been promoted to the vice-provincial and ministerial level.

According to news from Guangxi News Network on November 28, the Sixth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth Guangxi People's Congress passed the decision to appoint Yang Jinbai as the vice chairman of the autonomous region; at the same time, it accepted Hu Zhuo's request to resign as vice chairman of the autonomous region due to job changes.Hu Zhuo is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee (for details, see Caixin.com report: Hu Zhuo, a new member of the Standing Committee of Gansu, is appointed Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee; the former Ma Shizhong transferred to the Supreme Court).

The official resume shows that Yang Jinbai has worked in the power system for more than 20 years and has worked in China Southern Power Grid for a long time. In 2017, he was transferred from the deputy general manager of China Southern Power Grid to the deputy general manager of State Grid.In October 2018, Yang Jinbai parachuted into Guangxi to serve as a member of the party group of the autonomous region government. In November, he also served as the director of the Planning and Construction Management Office of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Beibu Gulf Office).

According to Guangxi News Network, the Beibu Gulf Office is a department-level institution directly under the autonomous region government. It was officially listed in Nanning on November 16. It is one of the six institutions that are completely independently set up according to local conditions in the institutional reform of Guangxi. It will help the economic zone to be better.Integrate into the construction of the Belt and Road and connect with the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

It is worth mentioning that Yang Jinbai is a graduate of the junior class of Xi'an Jiaotong University.Shaanxi Daily reported in 2015 that Yang Jinbai was a 1989 graduate of Xi'an Jiaotong University.However, the latest resume released by Guangxi News Network shows that in 1987, 14-year-old Yang Jinbai was admitted to the junior class of Xi'an Jiaotong University to study electric power system and automation.

After Yang Jinbai took office, there are at least 12 post-70s deputy provincial and ministerial officials across the country, seven of whom were promoted in 2018.Since the reelection of the provincial party committees in the second half of 2016, post-70s deputy provincial and ministerial officials have gradually become a large-scale group that deserves attention in China's political arena.

The country's first high-ranking official born in the 1970s appeared five years ago.In February 2013, Guanghui, then secretary of the Shanghai Fengxian District Party Committee, was promoted to deputy mayor of Shanghai, becoming the first post-70s senior official in the country.Guanghui has served as the deputy mayor of Shanghai for more than five years. In November 2018, he made his first inter-provincial exchange as a member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, becoming the third member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee born in the 1970s in the country.

The second senior post-70s official appeared only in 2015.According to official reports in August of that year, Zhou Liang attended the event as the head of the Organization Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, indicating that he had been promoted from the position of executive deputy head of the Organization Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to become the second head of the Organization Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection since its establishment in 2014.However, since Zhou Liang's resume was not officially released at the time, his identity as a post-70s generation was only confirmed afterwards.

Guanghui and Zhou Liang were both 43 years old when they were promoted to the provincial and ministerial level.After 2016, the post-70s who entered the provincial and ministerial level were all over 45 years old when they were promoted.

Beginning in the second half of 2016, with the completion of the provincial party committee reelection, two post-70s new members of the provincial party committee standing committee received media attention.They are Liu Jie, who was promoted to the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee in November 2016, and Zhuge Yujie, who was promoted to the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee in May 2017.One year after Liu Jie became the first member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee born in the 1970s, he was transferred to the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee in May 2018.

In the second half of 2017, the central discipline inspection system reappeared as post-70s deputy ministerial cadres.In September of that year, Li Xinran, then director of the Seventh Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was promoted to the head of the discipline inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, becoming the second senior discipline inspection official born in the 1970s after Zhou Liang.In November of that year, Zhou Liang was also transferred from the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to the vice chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission.After the institutional reform in March 2018, both of them were transferred to the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.

Since 2018, seven post-70s vice-provincial and ministerial-level cadres have been successively appointed, including the three vice-governors Li Yunze, Liu Qiang, and Guo Ningning who took office from September to October.Senior, currently working in Sichuan, Shandong, Fujian.

In addition, Li Bo, a cadre born in the 1970s who was promoted to vice chairman of the Chinese Federation of Overseas Chinese in August, also came from the financial system.Before Yang Jinbai was promoted to vice chairman of the Guangxi Autonomous Region government, Li Bo was the youngest provincial and ministerial official in the country.Li Bo is a returned overseas Chinese from the United States and previously served as the director of the Central Bank's Monetary Policy Department.

Among the 12 rising political stars born in the 1970s, four are currently serving in central departments or institutions, three are currently members of the standing committees of provincial party committees, and five are currently deputy posts of provincial governments.Among them, Zhou Liang and Li Xinran both came from the disciplinary inspection system. Both currently serve in the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and are both members of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; Guanghui and Zhuge Yujie both grew up in the political arena in Shanghai. Guanghui and Liu Jie are now members of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee.

According to public resumes, among the 12 people, there are five doctors and six masters; four are senior engineers, and two are senior economists.

Attachment: Resume of Yang Jinbai

Yang Jinbai, male, Han nationality, born in April 1973, Jiangling, Hubei, joined the Communist Party of China in December 2003, started working in July 1994, graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University, majoring in power system and automation, postgraduate degree, master of engineering, senior engineer.

He is currently the vice chairman and member of the party group of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the director (concurrently) of the Planning and Construction Management Office of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of the Autonomous Region.

1987mdash;1991 Xi'an Jiaotong University Power System and Automation Major Study (Junior Class)

1991mdash;1994 Xi'an Jiaotong University Master degree in power system and automation

1994mdash; In 2000, member of the operation mode section of the dispatching station of China Southern Electric Power Co., Ltd., deputy chief of the operation mode section of the dispatching communication center

2000mdash;2003 Section Chief and Chief Engineer of the Operation Mode Section of the Dispatching and Communication Center of the Southern Company of the State Power Corporation

2003mdash;2005 Deputy Director (in charge of the work) and Director of the Mode Division of the Power Dispatching and Communication Center of China Southern Power Grid

2005mdash;2010 Chief Engineer, Deputy Director, Party Committee Member of China Southern Power Grid Power Dispatch Communication Center

2010mdash;Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy General Manager of China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Corporation in 2012

2012mdash;2013 China Southern Power Grid Guizhou Power Grid Company Director, General Manager, Party Member

2013mdash;2014 Director of Strategic Planning Department of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd.

2014mdash;2017 Deputy General Manager and Party Member of China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd.

2017mdash;2018 Deputy General Manager and Party Member of State Grid Corporation of China (State Grid Corporation of China)

2018—Vice Chairman and Party Member of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Director (concurrently) of the Planning and Construction Management Office of the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone of the Autonomous Region (resume source: Guangxi News Network)