Wang Xuejun (; born December 1952) is a Chinese politician and former senior regional official. He served as the Governor of Anhui from 2013 to 2015, then was promoted to

Communist Party Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

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 ...

, a position he held from 2015 to 2016.

Career

Wang Xuejun is a native of

Nanpi County Nanpi () is a county in the east of Hebei province, China, bordering Shandong province to the south. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Cangzhou. , it has a population of 350,000 residing in an area of . Administrative ...

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 ...

province. He joined the

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in July 1975. He is a graduate of Hebei Institute of Technology (now

Hebei University of Technology The Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT; ) is a provincial public university in Tianjin, China. HEBUT is sponsored by Hebei Provincial People's Government, Tianjin Municipal People's Government and the Ministry of Education of China, which sp ...

). He began work as a regular factory worker. He climbed the ranks in

Cangzhou Cangzhou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. At the 2020 census, Cangzhou's built-up (''or metro'') area made of Yunhe, Xinhua districts and Cang County largely being conurbated had a populatio ...

, Hebei, eventually rising to become the city's vice mayor. He then served as party chief of

Langfang Langfang () is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, which was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It was renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a municipality and finally upgraded into a prefecture-level city in 1988. Lang ...

. He worked in his native Hebei until 2004. From 2004 to 2013 he was transferred to Beijing to head the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, the agency in charge of processing petitions from ordinary citizens. In March 2013 Wang was transferred to

province to become its acting governor, replacing Li Bin, who was appointed chairperson of the newly formed

National Health and Family Planning Commission The National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (NHFPC) was a cabinet-level executive department under the State Council which is responsible for providing information, raising health awareness and education, ...

. Wang Xuejun has been a full member of the 17th and the

18th 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. On June 1, 2015, Wang replaced

Zhang Baoshun Zhang Baoshun (; born February 1950) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China, and the former Communist Party Secretary of east China's Anhui province. Early life Zhang was born in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, on February 27, 1950. Care ...

, who had reached retirement age, as the Party Secretary of Anhui province. Wang's term as party chief was brief. He was relieved of the post just over one year later, on August 29, 2016. He left frontline politics and joined the

National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee The National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee () is one of nine special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. The special committee was ...

as a deputy chair.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Xuejun Living people 1952 births Governors of Anhui Political office-holders in Hebei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Politicians from Cangzhou Hebei University of Technology alumni