Chang Xiaobing, male, Han nationality, is a native of Hebei province. He was born in 1957, joined the CPC in 1976, graduated from the Nanjing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, received a M.B.A. degree from Tsinghua University, and received a doctorate of business administration from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has over twenty years of operational and managerial experience in the telecommunications industry. He is a senior engineer.
He served as director of the telecommunications administration department of the Ministry of Information Industry until 2004, and he was appointed as chairman of China Unicom (China United Telecommunications Corporation Limited) in that same year and served until 2015.
In 2015 he became Chairman of Board of Directors of China Telecom.