Profile: Wang Qishan: Rise of a troubleshooter (10)

（Xinhua） 08:27, December 26, 2012

File photo taken on May 19, 2012 shows Wang Qishan (C, front) attends the launching ceremony of 2012 National Tourism Day theme activity in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province. (Xinhua)

After graduation, he worked at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum in northwest China until 1979, when he moved to Beijing to work at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as a modern history researcher.

Wang's career in economics started in 1982, when he began to work as a rural policy researcher at research institutions under the CPC Central Committee's Secretariat and the State Council.

He served as deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, and president of the China Construction Bank in the 1990s.

Wang's wife, Yao Mingshan, has retired.