Cao Ronggui
Cao Ronggui | |
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| Chinese: 曹荣桂 | |
| Vice Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1938 (age 86–87) Shandong, China |
| Party | Chinese Communist Party |
Cao Ronggui (Chinese: 曹荣桂; born December 1938) is a Chinese public health administrator, hospital management expert, and academic. He served as vice minister of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China from 1995 to 2000 and was president of the Chinese Hospital Association from 2001 to 2011. He is the author of Hospital Management and has long been active in national professional organizations related to healthcare administration and disease prevention.[1]
Biography
Cao Ronggui was born in December 1938 in Shandong Province. He graduated in 1964 from the Department of Stomatology at Beijing Medical College (now part of Peking University Health Science Center). After graduation, he remained at the institution and served from 1964 to 1972 as secretary of the Communist Youth League committee. Between 1972 and 1982, he worked at the affiliated stomatological hospital, where he successively served as Party branch secretary and deputy Party committee secretary.[2]
From 1982 to 1984, Cao was appointed president of the Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Beijing Medical College. In September 1984, he transferred to the Ministry of Health, serving as deputy director general of the Department of Planning and Finance. He was later appointed deputy director of the General Office of the Ministry in March 1988, and promoted to director of the General Office in January 1989, a position he held until November 1995. During this period, he also concurrently served as director of the Ministry's Administrative Services Bureau beginning in 1992.[3]
In December 1995, Cao was appointed vice minister of health, serving in that capacity until May 2000. After leaving ministerial office, he became president of the Chinese Hospital Association in 2001 and held the post until 2011, after which he was named honorary president of the association. He has also served as honorary president of the Chinese Association for Health Promotion since 2007, president of the third council of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, and president of the third council of the China Endemic Disease Association.[4][5]
References
- ^ 中国医药年鉴 (in Chinese). 中国医药科技出版社. 1997. p. 605. ISBN 978-7-5067-1750-2. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ 中国卫生年鉴 (in Chinese). 人民卫生出版社. 2009. p. 475. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ 中国卫生经济 (in Chinese). 中国卫生经济杂志社. 2003. p. 31. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ 中华人民共和国年鉴 (in Chinese). 中国年鉴社. 2007. p. 738. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
- ^ "第五届中国医院院长年会隆重举行". 四川新绿色药业科技发展有限公司 (in Chinese). 17 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2025.