In this file photo taken on April 30, 2011, Wang Yang (3rd L) and Huang Huahua (2nd L) ride bicycles as they join in a public activity in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

As the youngest vice premier, the 58-year-old Wang Yang is the only vice premier born after the founding of the New China. Wang became vice governor of Anhui Province at 38, the youngest vice governor in the country at that time. In 1999, Wang served as deputy head of the National Development and Planning Commission and later deputy secretary-general of the State Council. In 2005, Wang became secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Commitee.

When joining a delegation from Anhui Province in deliberating the government work report delivered to the National People's Congress this year, Wang said that among the 11 aspects mentioned in the report, the key would be to remove institutional obstacles that hinder development.

"If the reforms 30 years ago solved the issue of ideology, now we have come to the issue of interests. Reform is like cutting one's own flesh, so we need great determination," said Wang.

In this file photo taken in January, 2006, Wang Yang (C) talks with locals during a research in Pengshui County of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. (Xinhua)

In 2007, Wang was assigned as secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee. At the first plenary meeting of the committee, Wang said that as a pioneer of reform, Guangdong must continue to emancipate thoughts and adhere to the policy of reform and opening up, as well as find a new way using the Scientific Outlook on Development.

Wang believes that officials should not forget the basic requirements of mankind and not lose the heart of a public servant. When leaving Guangdong last December, Wang encouraged his colleagues by saying that reform always has a lot of challenges, but that related responsibilities must be carried for the country's interest.