In a rare internal promotion Xie Chuntao was appointed Executive Vice President of the
Central Party School succeeding Li Shulei. Conventionally, the job has always been given to
someone from elsewhere.
(Comment: Xie Chuntao was born in February 1963 in Linshu County, Shandong Province.
From 1978 to 1988, he successively studied at Shandong Normal University, Zhejiang
University and Renmin University of China, and obtained a bachelor's degree in education, a
master's degree in law and a doctorate in law respectively. He used to be the president and
editor-in-chief of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In May 2018, he served as the Vice President (Dean) of the Central Party School (National
School of Administration).
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