Wang Min (; born March 1950) is a former politician of the

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. He successively served as

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province, Party Secretary and Governor of

Jilin Jilin (; alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) and Russia (Prim ...

province, and Vice Governor of

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

province. Once considered a promising future leader in the Communist Party, Wang retired from his provincial leadership positions in 2015, before coming under investigation for corruption in 2016. He was sentenced to life in prison upon being convicted on charges of bribery and dereliction of duty. A native of

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province, Wang has a doctoral degree in in Machinery Manufacturing from

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics The Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA, ), colloquially known as Nanhang (南航), is a public research university in Nanjing, China. One of the Seven Sons of National Defence, it is directly supervised by the Ministry of In ...

and was a professor and vice president of the university.

Career

Starting in September 1968 Wang Min was one of the many

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s sent down to the countryside and then worked in a factory during the

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. Later he studied at Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics (since renamed

) where he obtained a Ph.D. He stayed at the university as a professor, and eventually became its vice president. Wang Min joined the

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in July 1985. In July 1994, he was transferred from the university to the provincial government of

as an assistant governor. In December 1996, he was appointed as a deputy governor of Jiangsu. In May 2002, he became the Communist Party Chief of the city of

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. In October 2004, Wang Min was transferred to

province in

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, where he took the positions of deputy party chief, deputy governor, and acting governor. On 29 January 2005, he was elected Governor of Jilin province. In December 2006, he was promoted to the position of Communist Party Chief of Jilin and resigned as governor. In November 2009, Wang was transferred from Jilin to neighbouring

province to become its Party Chief. He was succeeded by

Sun Zhengcai Sun Zhengcai (; born September 25, 1963) is a former Chinese politician and senior regional official. From 2012 to 2017, Sun served as the Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing, an interior municipality, and a member of the Politburo of the Chi ...

as the Party Chief of Jilin. After reaching the age of 65, Wang Min was replaced by Governor Li Xi as Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning in May 2015. Subsequently, Wang was named a deputy chair of the

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. Wang was a member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.

Investigation

On March 4, 2016, Wang Min was placed under investigation by the

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for "serious discipline violations." He was expelled from the Communist Party on August 10, 2016, for dereliction of duty and negligence during a vote-buying scandal, violating the

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and for bribery. It was said that the cases of

Wang Yang Wang Yang may refer to: People *Wang Yang (politician) (born 1955), Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference *Wang Yang (Liaoning politician) (born 1957), former provincial official from Liaoni ...

and

Su Hongzhang Su Hongzhang (; born May 1959) is a former Chinese politician, and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Liaoning Province. He was dismissed from his position in April 2016 for investigation by the Central Commission for Disc ...

had both involved Wang Min in some capacity. On August 4, 2017, Wang was sentenced to life in prison for taking bribes worth 146 million yuan, plundering the public fund worth 1 million yuan for personal use and dereliction of duty in Luoyang.

References

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