Hou Jianguo

Hou Jianguo (Chinese: 侯建国; born October 1959) is a Chinese chemist and politician and current party secretary of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. An accomplished research scientist, Hou has extensive international work experience. He is representative of a class of academics-turned-politicians in his cohort.

Biography

Hou was born in Fuqing County, Fujian. He joined the workforce in October 1976 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1985. He is a graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and holds a master's degree in condensed matter physics. Between 1988 and 1995, he conducted research into crystallography and chemistry at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Fujian Institute of Material Structures, and at the University of California, Berkeley and Oregon State University.

In 1995, he became a professor at USTC - in charge of the Structural Science Research Lab and dean of the Physics and Chemistry department. In 2000, he was named vice president of the University. In November 2003, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In November 2004, he became a member of The World Academy of Sciences. In September 2005, he was named executive vice president of the USTC, and promoted to president in 2008. On January 24, 2015, he became Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.^[1]

In November 2016, he was named deputy party chief of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.^[2]

In June 2017, he was named head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

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