Bao Xuding, male, Han nationality, was born in 1939 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He studied at a machinery school in Shenyang, Liaoning Province and joined the CPC in 1961. He studied at the CPC Central Committee Party School until 1986 and then worked in the general office of the CPC provincial committee in Sichuan Province. During the same period, Bao held executive positions in industrial and economic planning organizations in that province.
Bao served as vice-minister of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry during from 1990 to 1993, he was vice minister of the Ministry of Machine Building Industry from 1993 to 1996, and minister of that industry from 1996 to 1998. He then served as vice-minister of the State Development Planning Commission during from 1998 to 1999.
Bao became deputy secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee in June 1999 and became vice-mayor at the same time. He became mayor of Chongqing, Sichuan Province in January 2000. Bao was a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
Bao is currently General Manager of the China International Engineering Consulting Company.