Zhang Lichang, a native of Nanpi, Hebei Province, was born in June 1939. With a junior college education background, he began to work in May 1958 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in February 1966. He started his career by working with the Tianjin Seamless Tubing Mill, as deputy section chief, section chief, deputy secretary of the mill?s Youth League committee, vice-director, director and deputy secretary of the CPC committee of the factory. From 1980 to 1985, he served as a standing member, and then deputy secretary of the CPC committee, vice-director and director of the Tianjin Municipal Administration of Metallurgical Industry; vice-chairman and chairman of the Tianjin Municipal Economic Commission. Since 1985, he was vice-mayor of Tianjin, secretary of the Industrial Work Committee of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee and chairman of the Port Administration Commission. From 1989 to 1993, he served as deputy secretary of the 5th CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee and executive vice-mayor of Tianjin. From 1993 to 1997, he served as deputy secretary of the 6th CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, mayor and secretary of the municipal government CPC leading group. In May 1998, he was elected secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee and concurrently chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tianjin Municipal People's Congress.
Zhang was an alternative member of the 12th and 13th CPC Central Committee and a member of the 14th CPC Central Committee. He is a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and also deputy to the Ninth National People's Congress.
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