Gou was born
Zhenyuan County,
Gansu province. He joined the
Chinese Communist Party in April 1976, the year Mao died. He attended
Xidian University with a degree in electrical engineering. He also has a
Master's of Business Administration (MBA). In February 2002, Gou was named Vice Minister of Information Technology. He was transferred to become a vice mayor of Beijing in April 2008. He became a member of the Beijing
party standing committee in July 2013, taking charge of the
Zhongguancun administrative district a month later, in addition to overseeing education in the city. In May 2016, he replaced the disgraced
Lü Xiwen as deputy party chief of the Chinese capital. In October 2016, Gou became Director of the
State General Administration of Sports. On December 28, 2016, he was elected as the President of the
Chinese Olympic Committee. He was the Executive President of the
Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. In 2019, he was elected as the new president of the
International Wushu Federation. He was awarded the
Silver Olympic Order after the
2022 Winter Olympics. In August 2022, Gou stepped down as Director of the State General Administration of Sports after reaching the age of 65. ==Investigation==