1956年6月生于北京。清华大学经济学博士。1982年起在北京市密云县工作，历任团县委书记、乡党委书记、县经贸委主任、县委常委、县委副书记、县长等职务。1993年任北京市人民政府副市长。1998年负责组建北京首都旅游集团有限责任公司，出任首旅集团董事长、党委书记。2012年7月3日，当选为中国共产党北京市第十一届委员会委员。
Duan Qiang, born in Beijing in June 1956, graduated from Tsinghua University with a doctor of economics. Since working in Beijing Miyun County from 1982, he has successively acted as a secretary of the Youth League Committee, the County Party Committee, the Village Committee and the Party Commmittee, as well as a director of the County’s Economic and Trade Commission, a member of the County Party Committee’s standing committee, vice secretary of the Country Party Committee, county magistrate, etc. Duan Qiang became deputy mayor of Beijing Municipal Government in 1993, set up BTG(Beijing Tourism Group) in 1998, and then being chairman and secretary of the group’s party committee up to now. He was selected as a member of the 11th Beijing municipal committee of CPC(Communist Party of China) on July 3rd, 2012.