Pang Lijuan

Pang Lijuan is a Chinese educator and politician who is a member of the Standing Committee of [the National People's Congress] and a member of the Chinese Communist Party. She has also worked at Beijing Normal University, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Early life

Pang was born in 1962, in Ninghai County, Zhejiang, China. Lijuan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in childhood education in 1982, a master of philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1987 and a doctorate in psychology in 1991, from the Beijing Normal University.

Career

Pang has worked at Beijing Normal University, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. At Beijing Normal University she worked as Vice Director of the University Council, and as a professor. She worked at the Senior Behavior Scientific Research Center at Stanford University and at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley.
Since 2003, Pang served as a member of the Standing Committee of the [National People's Congress] and during her tenure she served on the Education, Science, Culture and Health committee.