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What If Chinese Leaders Were on LinkedIn?

Political careers through a professional lens

20199 min read

Imagining Chinese leaders' LinkedIn profiles reveals the distinctive career paths that lead to the top of the CCP. Engineering degrees, provincial rotations, and party school credentials would dominate.

Career Patterns

The typical Politburo member has served in multiple provinces, held positions in both party and state organs, and accumulated decades of progressively senior experience.

Originally published by MacroPolo, Paulson Institute