Cao Jianming, ethnic Han, born in September 1955, native of Nantong of Jiangsu Province; Joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in December 1973; Started working in December 1972; Graduated from the international law major of the international law department of the East China University of Political Science and Law; post-graduate education; master of laws; professor.Template:Aaa

Member of the CPC Central Committee, procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

1972-1975 Worked at Qianjin Eatery under the Food and Drink Company of Jing'an District of Shanghai; Deputy Party branch secretary of the company's Xiangyang Restaurant, deputy secretary of the company's committee of the Communist Youth League.

1975-1979 Head of the political work section of the health division of the Shanghai Municipal Health Department

1979-1983 Student in the major of law at the East China University of Political Science and Law

1983-1986 Post graduate student in the international law major of the international law department of the East China University of Political Science and Law

1986-1986 Teacher and administrator of the international law department of the East China University of Political Science and Law

1986-1995 Deputy director and director of the international law department of the East China University of Political Science and Law (visiting scholar at Ghent University, Belgium, in 1988-1989; invited to give lectures at University of San Francisco, the United States, in July-December 1990)

1995-1997 Deputy secretary of the CPC committee and executive vice president of the East China University of Political Science and Law

1997-1999 President and deputy secretary of the CPC committee of the East China University of Political Science and Law (in charge of the work of the university's CPC committee in October 1998)

1999-2002 Vice president and member of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Supreme People's Court. Member of the court's judicial committee and concurrently president of the National Judges College (Studied at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee in the training class for provincial and ministerial-level cadres in March-May 2001)

2002-2003 Vice president and deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Supreme People's Court (ministerial level). Member of the court's judicial committee and concurrently President of the National Judges College

2003-2008 Vice president and deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Supreme People's Court (ministerial level).Member of the court's judicial committee.

2008 elected procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate

Alternate member of the 16th CPC Central Committee; Member of the 17th CPC Central Committee.?