Wang Wei (; born January 1960) is a Chinese politician. He spent a major part of his career at the

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) is the highest internal control institution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), tasked with enforcing internal rules and regulations and combating corruption and malfeasance in the par ...

. In 2013, Wang was named the deputy director of the office in charge of the

Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the world ...

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Career

Wang was born in

Jianchang County Jianchang () is a county of Huludao City in the southwest of Liaoning province, China. It is the largest division of Huludao, with an area of , and population of 600,000, located in mountainous terrain west of that city, serviced by China Nationa ...

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 studied political economics at

Renmin University The Renmin University of China (RUC; ) is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. RUC ...

of China. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1983, and first worked as a Communist Youth League functionary at his alma mater. Between 1985 and 1993 he served successively as the Renmin University Youth League deputy secretary, then Secretary. He also worked in the party's propaganda wing and as the head of the

General Office A General Office (also known as "administrative office") is an important administrative political organ in the communist party organizations and communist countries (such as China, Laos and Vietnam for instance). Generally speaking, the General Offi ...

at the university. In December 1993 he became the assistant to the district governor of

Xicheng District Xicheng District () is a district of Beijing. Xicheng District spans , covering the western half of the old city (largely inside the 2nd Ring Road - the eastern half is Dongcheng District, Beijing, Dongcheng District), and has 706,691 inhabitant ...

in Beijing. A few months later he was named deputy district governor. He stayed in the post for some four years. In May 1998, he was transferred to work for the

(CCDI), where he became an inspector and oversaw the direct subsidiary organs of the CCDI, as well as the center for shared services (). In 2003, he became the head of the

of the CCDI. He then received a master's degree from the Central Party School. In 2005, Wang was named the head of the General Office serving the predecessor body to the

Central Leading Group for Inspection Work The Central Leading Group for Inspection Work () is a coordination body set up under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party for the purpose of managing party disciplinary inspections nationwide. Inspection work began in the early ...

, officially joining the provincial-ministerial ranks. In October 2007, at the 17th Party Congress, Wang was named a Standing Committee member of the CCDI. He also acted as the spokesperson for the Ministry of Supervision, in addition to being vice minister. In February 2008 he became the top spokesperson for the CCDI. At the 18th Party Congress held in November 2012, Wang was named a Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. In May 2013, after a fifteen-year career at the CCDI, Wang left his posts there to become deputy director of the State Council Office for the Three Gorges Dam project, with the ranking of a cabinet minister. In May 2018, Wang was transferred to work for the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (), and became a member of Party group.

References

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