1956年6月生于北京。清華大學經濟學博士。1982年起在北京市密云縣工作，歷任團縣委書記、鄉黨委書記、縣經貿委主任、縣委常委、縣委副書記、縣長等職務。1993年任北京市人民政府副市長。1998年負責組建北京首都旅游集團有限責任公司，出任首旅集團董事長、黨委書記。2012年7月3日，當選為中國共產黨北京市第十一屆委員會委員。
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.