Wang Taihua (; born October 1945) is a politician of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, between 2004 and 2011, he served as director of the

State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television The National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) is a ministry-level executive agency controlled by the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its main task is the administration and supervision of state-owned enterp ...

(SARFT).

Biography

Born in

Xingguo Xingguo County () is a county in south central Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of and located in the north of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou, with a total area of . Its population was 719,830 at ...

Jiangxi Province Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hi ...

, Wang started working in September 1969, and joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

(CCP) in June 1973. He obtained a postgraduate degree at the CCP

Central Party School The Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (), commonly known as the Central Party School (), located in Beijing, is the higher education institution which trains Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. As of 2012, it has around 1,6 ...

. Wang served in Jiangxi for years. In March 1992, he became the secretary of the CCP

Hefei Hefei (; ) is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census and its built-up ( ...

municipal committee and a standing member of the CCP

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

committee. In May of the same year, he was elevated to vice secretary of the CCP Anhui committee while still holding the position of Party chief of Hefei. In October 1998, Wang was appointed vice governor and acting governor of Anhui, and was confirmed as governor in February 1999. In January 2000, he was elevated to secretary of the CCP Anhui committee. In January 2003, Wang was elected chairman of the Anhui provincial People's Congress. He has served as director of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television since December 2004. Wang was an alternate member of the 14th and 15th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 16th Central Committee. He was a member of the

17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 17th Congress on 21 October 2007, and sat until the 18th National Congress in 2012. The 17th CC is composed of full members and alternate members. It was followed by the ...

. He joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after he left his position at SARFT.

References

Living people 1945 births People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangxi Politicians from Ganzhou People from Xingguo County Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangxi Political office-holders in Anhui {{china-politician-stub