Ma Biao

Ma Biao (; Zhuang: Maz Biauz; born August 1954) is a retired Chinese politician of ethnic Zhuang heritage. Born in Guangxi, Ma joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1985. He was elected chairman of the Guangxi government on January 26, 2008, and served this post until March 2013. He was a member of the 18th Central Committee of the CCP. He additionally served as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference between 2011 and 2023.

Biography Ma was born on 1954 in Tianyang County in Baise, Guangxi. During the Cultural Revolution, after completing his secondary education, he worked as a laborer at the Liuzhou Iron and Steel Plant in Guangxi. When the national college entrance examination system (gaokao) was reinstated, he successfully gained admission in 1978 to the Department of Political Science and Political Economy at the Central University for Nationalities (now Minzu University of China). Upon graduation, Ma began his career in economic research, working first at the Planning and Economic Research Institute of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Planning Commission and later at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In June 1985, he joined the Chinese Communist Party and also served in a temporary post as Deputy Party Secretary of Luocheng County, Guangxi.

In 1994, Ma began serving as assistant to the Party Secretary of Beihai. Over the following years, he held a series of roles, including Deputy Director of the Guangxi Economic Restructuring Commission, Vice Chairman of the Guangxi Youth Federation, Commissioner of the Baise Prefecture Administrative Office and Party Secretary of Baise Prefecture. Following the 2003 administrative merger of Baise prefecture and city, Ma became the first Party Secretary of the newly formed Baise city. He stepped down from his position as Vice Chairman of the CPPCC on 10 March 2023.