Cao Xianghong, male, Han nationality, graduated from Nanjing Petroleum and Chemical Institute in 1967, majoring in macromolecule. He is a senior engineer.
Cao has more than 30 years of petroleum industry management in China. From 1984 to 1997, he was deputy general manager and general engineer of Beijing Yanshan Petroleum Corporation.
He has served as general manager and chairman of Beijing Yanshan Petroleum Company Limited. Cao also was the chairman of Beijing Yanshan Petroleum Stocks Company Limited from 1997 to 2000. He is an academician at the China Academy of Engineering.