Gao Guangbin

Gao Guangbin (Chinese: 高广滨; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2015 as the Executive Vice Governor of Jilin and a member of the Jilin provincial Party Standing Committee. He is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Gao was born in Harbin. He studied optical instrument engineering at Changchun Optical College (later Changchun University of Science and Technology). He began working for the provincial school of the Communist Youth League in Jilin province, then became Secretary (i.e. leader) of the provincial Youth League organization in 1997. He then served as deputy party chief, vice mayor, acting mayor, and finally mayor of Songyuan, before being elevated to party chief of Tonghua in April 2004. In May 2007, at age 43, Gao was named a member of the Jilin provincial Party Standing Committee and party chief of the provincial capital Changchun.^[1] He served in the position for some eight years, before being transferred to become Executive Vice Governor of Jilin province, taking on the vacancy left by Ma Junqing.

Gao was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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