Wu Qiang (; born August 1966) is a Chinese official currently serving as party secretary of Bijie, Guizhou and secretary general of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee. He is an alternate member of the

19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...

Biography

Wu was born in

Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Xinhuang County", commonly abbreviated as Xinhuang, ) is an autonomous county of Dong people and the westernmost county of Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the pref ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

, in August 1966. Wu Qiang received a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

with a major in

economic geography Economic geography is the subfield of human geography which studies economic activity and factors affecting them. It can also be considered a subfield or method in economics. There are four branches of economic geography. There is, primary secto ...

(

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

) from

Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU; ) is a national public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is a member of C9 League and a Class A Double First Class University designated by the Chinese central government. NJU has two main campuses: the Xianl ...

in 1988 and a

Master of Engineering A Master of Engineering (abbreviated MEng, M.E. or M.Eng.) is either an academic or professional master's degree in the field of engineering. International variations Australia In Australia, the Master of Engineering degree is a research deg ...

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

and

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

from

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU, ), formerly Peiyang University (), is a national public research university in Tianjin, China. The university was established in 1895 by Guangxu Emperor's royal charter to be the first university of China. It is now fun ...

in 2005. Wu worked in government after university in August 1988. He joined the

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

in November 1994. He worked at Guiyang Urban Planning Bureau before serving as deputy director of Guizhou Provincial Communications Department in February 2002. In November 2011, he was transferred to Bijie and appointed vice mayor and deputy party branch secretary. He was also a member of the standing committee of the CPC Bijie Municipal Committee, the city's top authority. He became director of Guizhou Railway Construction Office and deputy secretary general of Guizhou Provincial Government in July 2012, and served until September 2016, when he was appointed director of Guizhou Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission and secretary of National Defense Industry Working Committee of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee. In January 2018, he was promoted to vice governor of Guizhou, a post he kept until September 2020, when he became secretary general of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. He concurrently serving as party secretary of

Bijie Bijie () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the north and Yunnan to the west. The Daotianhe Reservoir, located to the north of the town was commissioned in 1965 with a rated annual capacity o ...

since August 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Qiang 1966 births Living people People from Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County Nanjing University alumni Tianjin University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party