Li Wentang (; born 1965) is a Chinese university administrator and politician who is the current chief education officer of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, in office since July 2022. He is an alternate member of the

20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was elected by the 20th National Congress in October 2022, and will sit until the next National Congress is convened in 2027. It formally succeeded the 19th Central Committee. The ...

Biography

Li was born in Jinhua County (now Jinhua),

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...

, in 1965, and graduated from

Shandong University Shandong University (, abbreviated as Shanda, , English abbreviation SDU) is a public research comprehensive university in Jinan, Shandong with one campus in Weihai, Shandong and one campus in Qingdao, Shandong and is supported directly by the ...

and the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He also studied at the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

and the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Munich and the University of Ireland. Beginning in 1996, he served in several posts in the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, including lecturer, professor, deputy director and director of Teaching and Research Department, and director of Education and Research Department of Culture and History. In July 2022, he was appointed chief education officer, a position at vice-ministerial level.

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