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The Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

NameWent to universityStudied
Hu JintaoTsinghuaHydraulic engineering
Wu BangguoTsinghuaElectron tube engineering
Wen JiabaoBeijing Institute of GeologyPhD in geomechanics
Jia QinglinShijiazhuang Industrial Management School (Hebei, 200km from Beijing)Industrial enterprise planning
Li ChangchunHarbin Institute of TechnologyElectrical engineering
Xi JinpingTsinghuaChemical engineering
Li KeqiangPeking UniversityLLB; PhD in economics
He GuoqiangBeijing Institute of Chemical EngineeringInorganic chemistry
Zhou YongkangBeijing Petroleum InstituteGeophysical survey and exploration


What I don't know is whether there's ever been a US or UK cabinet with this high a concentration of engineers.

Date: 2009-01-30 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com
Is that the complete list, or are there others?

Date: 2009-01-30 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shimgray.livejournal.com
There's a Politburo of twenty-something, which has a standing committee of nine, and apparently most power lies in the latter.

It's not clear what education all of the others have, but a quick sampling brings up an engineer, a couple of non-university-educated, and (unexpectedly) someone with a degree in philosophy...

Date: 2009-01-30 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] martin-wisse.livejournal.com
It's Charlie Stross' Technocratic movement brought to life.

Date: 2009-01-30 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com
Do you mind if I nick this?

Date: 2009-01-30 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
Go ahead. It does suggest that, if you want another half-dozen Heinleins, wait twenty years and learn Chinese.

Date: 2009-02-02 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jojomojo.livejournal.com
I'm willing to bet the old Soviet Union's politburo was up there too back in the day...that's Stalinism for you. Pretty big on big (applied) science ;)

Date: 2009-02-02 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
Chasing biographies of Soviet politicos from forty years ago is sufficiently tiresome that I'd like only to do this once; when would be the most engineer-ridden kind of date? I would guess either mid-Brezhnev or early Khrushchev; October 1961 or March 1976.

I started doing the exercise for the current Indian cabinet, but that has twenty-nine members - good old-fashioned Ministries of Steel, Ministries of Mines, Ministries of Non-Resident Indians - and their biographies are not necessarily on-line

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