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A member of China’s “big three” oil and gas producers along with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Sinopec, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is the largest integrated energy company in China and parent company of PetroChina, the country’s largest oil producer by volume and one of the most profitable companies in Asia. CNPC is major structural component of China’s economy, not least through its employment of almost a million people in the country (around 10 times the headcount of each of the largest multinational oil majors). It takes a formidable strategist to oversee the complexities of such an organisation, and with three decades’ worth of experience in the oil and gas industry, Guo Jinping, general counsel and director of the legal department at CNPC, occupies a position of authority matched by few others in the country. Since joining CNCP he has served, among other things, as the chief economist to the bureau of policy and regulations, the deputy director of development and research, and the general manager of the legal department. He was appointed to the position of director of the legal department in 2005 and was made general counsel in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of supervisors and assistant to the general manager of CNPC.