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Wen Jiabao (simplified Chinese: 温家宝; traditional Chinese: 温家寶; pinyin: Wēn Jiābǎo; Wade-Giles: Wen...

Wen Jiabao (simplified Chinese: 温家宝; traditional Chinese: 温家寶; pinyin: Wēn Jiābǎo; Wade-Giles: Wen Chia-pao; born 15 September 1942) is the current Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, serving as the country's head of government and leading its cabinet. He also holds membership in the 16th and 17th Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, the country's de facto top power organ, where he is ranked third out of nine members. Wen is a geologist and engineer by profession and holds a postgraduate degree from the Beijing Institute of Geology, where he graduated in 1968. He was subsequently sent to Gansu province for geological work, and remained in China's hinterland regions during his climb up the bureaucratic ladder. He was transferred to Beijing to work as the head of the Party General Office between 1986 and 1993, and accompanied General Secretary Zhao Ziyang to the Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests. In 1998, he was promoted to the post of Vice Premier under Zhu Rongji, his mentor, holding the portfolios of agriculture and finance. Since taking office as Premier of the People's Republic of China in 2003, Wen