Wang Shengjun (; born October 15, 1946 in Suzhou, Anhui) is a retired Chinese politician who was the President of the

Supreme People's Court The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC; ) is the highest court of the People's Republic of China. It hears appeals of cases from the high people's courts and is the trial court for cases about matters of national ...

of China from March 2008 to March 2013.

Biography

He 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 1972. Wang was appointed as the Secretary General of the Central Political and Legislative Committee in 1998. He was the member of the

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, 17th and

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. ...

CCP Central Committees. Wang has no formal legal training.Biography of Wang Shengjun
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Three Supremes The Three Supremes () is a doctrine first articulated by General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao in December 2007, which requires the judiciary to subordinate the written law to the interests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a ...

" doctrine articulated by CCP general secretary

Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, an ...

. He was a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress between 2013 and 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Shengjun 1946 births Living people 20th-century Chinese judges 21st-century Chinese judges Chairperson and vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui Chinese police officers Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui Politicians from Suzhou, Anhui Presidents of the Supreme People's Court