Wang Jianping (; born December 1953) is a former general of the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

(PLA) of China. He served as commander of the

People's Armed Police ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

and deputy chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army. He was dismissed in 2016 and placed under investigation for corruption. He was a member of the

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Biography

Wang traces his ancestry to

Zanhuang County Zanhuang County () is a county in the southwestern Hebei Province, North China, bordering Shanxi province to the west. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital. Administrative divisions ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

; he was born in Fushun,

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

province. He joined the military in 1969, and served on the artillery force of the

40th Group Army The 40th Group Army was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army, active in various forms from 1949 to 2017. It was last located in the Shenyang Military Region and the Northern Theater Command. History Korean War During the Korean Wa ...

. In 1992 he became commander of the 120th Division of the 40th Group Army. Thereafter he entered the mechanical division of the

(PAP). In 1996, he became head of the Tibet People's Armed Police contingent, then became deputy commander of the

in June 2009 and was named commander of

in June 2012. In December 2014 he was transferred back to the PLA to become deputy chief of joint staff. In January 2015 Wang became deputy head of a coordinating group on military training. After comprehensive reforms to the People's Liberation Army in 2015, Wang was named Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department. In August 2016, the ''

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'' reported that Wang had been arrested to face charges in connection to the Zhou Yongkang case. Wang was not present at the Sixth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee held in October 2016, further confirming rumours that he was in trouble. On 29 December 2016, the Defense Ministry of China confirmed that he had been placed under investigation for bribery. Wang was initially an alternate member of the

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, ranked 4th out of 167 alternate members. He was made a full member upon the expulsion of Bo Xilai in 2012. He was a full member of the

until his own expulsion at the Seventh Plenum in October 2017.

References

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