Sang Guowei, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuxing District, Zhejiang province. He was born in 1941, and graduated from the pharmacology department
of the First Medical College of Shanghai in 1966. He is a doctoral tutor and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology several times. Professor Sang was also awarded the Medical Sciences Prize of the HLHL Foundation in 1997.
He joined the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party in 1996, and he was elected chairman in 2007. He is a standing committee member of the NPC and deputy director of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee of the NPC.
In 2008 he became Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 11th NPC.