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.