奚国华此前为中国中信集团有限公司副董事长、总经理，目前同时担任中国中信股份有限公司和中国中信有限公司副董事长、总经理，中国中信金融控股有限公司董事长。There were many public comments in November
CITIC Group announced on December 6 that on the morning of the same day, China CITIC Group Co., Ltd. held a cadre meeting. The relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Central Committee announced the central government's decision: Xi Guohua will serve as Party Secretary of China CITIC Group Co., Ltd.
Xi Guohua was previously the vice chairman and general manager of China CITIC Group Co., Ltd. Currently, he also serves as the vice chairman and general manager of China CITIC Corporation and China CITIC Co., Ltd., and the chairman of China CITIC Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.
According to his resume, born in December 1963, he is a professor-level senior engineer. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Railway University, majoring in locomotive electric transmission, with a master's degree in management and a doctorate degree in engineering. Previously, he also served as Director of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Deputy General Manager of China North Locomotive and Vehicle Industry Group Corporation, Secretary of the Party Committee of CNR Group and Executive Director and President of China CNR Co., Ltd., Executive Director, Vice Chairman and President of CRRC Corporation, Vice Chairman, General Manager, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of Xinxing Jihua Group Co., Ltd., Chairman and Party Secretary of Xinxing Jihua Group Co., Ltd.
On November 10, while attending the annual meeting of the 2023 Financial Street Forum, Xi Guohua said at the Xinhua News Agency home forum with the theme of “Focus on the New Opportunities of 'Digital and Factual Integration' to Build a New Engine for Financial Services” that CITIC Group will earnestly implement the spirit of the Central Financial Work Conference, firmly grasp the political and popular nature of financial work, strengthen innovation leadership, increase technical research, and deepen open cooperation, and work with all ecological partners to create a new future for digital-reality integration development.
On November 20, the theoretical edition of Economic Daily published Xi Guohua's article “Promoting Self-Reliance and Self-Improvement in Seed Industry Science and Technology,” he stated that CITIC Group resolutely implemented the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements on the development of the seed industry, gave full play to the advantages of leading enterprises in the seed industry, gathered scientific and technological resources, carried out key core technical research, promoted the upgrading of the commercial breeding system, and contributed to the country's self-reliance and improvement in the science and technology of the seed industry.