Zhuang Guotai

Zhuang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian, on 25 April 1962.^[2] After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1979, he was accepted to Chengdu Meteorological College (now Chengdu University of Information Technology), where he majored in atmospheric detection.^[2] After graduation, he stayed for teaching. In 1986, he did his postgraduate work at Peking University.^[2]

After graduating in 1989, Zhuang was assigned to the State Bureau of Environment Protection, which was reshuffled as Ministry of Ecology and Environment in 2008, and over a period of 28 years worked his way up to the position of vice minister.^[2]

Zhuang was party branch secretary of the China Meteorological Administration in December 2020, in addition to serving as director since January of the next year.^[3]

In January 2023, Zhuang was transferred to northwest China's Gansu province and appointed chairman of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the provincial advisory body.^[3]