NEW DEPUTY HEAD OF NUCLEAR SAFETY WATCHDOG
Dong Baotong was appointed deputy head of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and head of the National Nuclear Safety Administration. He no longer serves as deputy head of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.
Dong was born in Shenxian County, Hebei Province, in 1967. At just 14, he was admitted to Peking University—having obtained first place in the national college entrance examination in Hengshui, Hebei—where he majored in nuclear physics.
He started his first job in 1985 and since then has been working at several research institutes under a nuclear engineering corporation and different
