To reflect on when people complain that the Cabinet is full of Oxbridge lawyers
The Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
What I don't know is whether there's ever been a US or UK cabinet with this high a concentration of engineers.
Name | Went to university | Studied |
Hu Jintao | Tsinghua | Hydraulic engineering |
Wu Bangguo | Tsinghua | Electron tube engineering |
Wen Jiabao | Beijing Institute of Geology | PhD in geomechanics |
Jia Qinglin | Shijiazhuang Industrial Management School (Hebei, 200km from Beijing) | Industrial enterprise planning |
Li Changchun | Harbin Institute of Technology | Electrical engineering |
Xi Jinping | Tsinghua | Chemical engineering |
Li Keqiang | Peking University | LLB; PhD in economics |
He Guoqiang | Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering | Inorganic chemistry |
Zhou Yongkang | Beijing Petroleum Institute | Geophysical 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.
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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