Fan Bo studied welding technology and equipment in the Department of Metal Materials Engineering at Jilin University of Technology from September 1987 to July 1991, earning a bachelor's degree in engineering. After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences [zh] from 1991 to 1997, where he served successively as assistant engineer, engineer, and deputy head of the Agricultural Machinery Testing Station.[2]
From 1997 to 1998, he served as a deputy division-level cadre in the Office of the Department of Personnel and Labor of the Ministry of Machinery Industry. Beginning in 1998, he worked in the Discipline Inspection Group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection stationed in the State Bureau of Machinery Industry, holding positions including deputy division-level cadre and deputy director of the General Office. During this period, from 1998 to 2000, he pursued in-service graduate studies in Management Science and Engineering at Jilin University of Technology, obtaining a master's degree in management.[3]
In 2000, he moved to the Personnel Department of the State Planning Commission (later the National Development and Reform Commission, NDRC), where he served as assistant researcher, deputy director of the General Division, and later director of the General Division. From 2003 to 2009, he served as deputy director and then director of the General Division, and subsequently as director of the Cadre Division of the NDRC Personnel Department.[3]
From 2009 to 2016, Fan served as deputy inspector and later deputy director of the NDRC Personnel Department. During this time, he was temporarily assigned to Sichuan Province twice: from July to October 2012 as deputy director and Party group member of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, and from October 2012 to February 2016 as deputy secretary-general of the People's Government of Sichuan Province and a member of the General Office's Party group.[4]
In August 2016, he became head of the Comprehensive Coordination Group of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (at the department-head level), concurrently serving as deputy director of the Department of Basic Industries of the NDRC.[5]
From September 2016 to November 2018, he served as director and Party secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, as well as director of the Provincial Price Bureau and the Sichuan Western Development Office. He continued to serve in these positions from November 2018 to January 2020.[6] From January 2020 to July 2022, he served as Secretary of the CCP Zigong Municipal Committee.[7]
In July 2022, he was appointed vice governor and a member of the Party group of the Shandong Provincial People's Government, serving until April 2024.[8] Between April and May 2024, he concurrently served as a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Shandong Provincial Committee, secretary-general of the provincial Party committee, and a member of the Party group and vice governor of the provincial government.[9] From May 2024 to November 2025, he continued as a member of the Standing Committee and secretary-general of the Shandong Provincial Committee.[10]
In November 2025, Fan Bo was appointed a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of the CCP Suzhou Municipal Committee [zh].[11][12]