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Wang Lequan (born December 1944) is a retired Chinese politician, most notable for being the
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 ...
in
Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...
, the autonomous region's top political office, between 1994 and 2010. From 2004 to 2012, Wang was also a member of the
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. From 2010 to 2012 he was a Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission. He retired from active politics in 2012, and became President of the
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in 2013.


Life and career

Wang Lequan was born in
Shouguang Shouguang () is a county-level city in the north-central part of Shandong Province, China, situated on the southwest shore of the Laizhou Bay. Under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Weifang, it has people residing within the mun ...
, Shandong in December 1944. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1966. He was a post-graduate at the
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of the CCP Central Committee. Wang ran the
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in Shandong Province in the mid-1980s and became vice governor of Shandong in 1989. Wang was the Secretary of the CCP Xinjiang Committee from 1994 until 2010. As Secretary, he was responsible for implementing modernization programs in Xinjiang. He encouraged industrialization, development of commerce, and investments in roads and railways. He furthered the development of the oil and gas fields in the region, link-up of pipelines from
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to eastern China. On the other hand, he constrained local culture and religion, substituted Mandarin for
Uyghur language The Uyghur or Uighur language (; , , , or , , , , CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8-11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xi ...
in primary schools; restricted or banned, among government workers, the wearing of beards and headscarves, fasting and praying while on the job. Wang was a member of the 16th and the 17th Politburos of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He is known for his hardline approach to ethnic minorities. He acquired the nickname "the stability secretary" for his ability to enter into a chaotic situation and bring it to order. Wang was widely criticized by Uighurs and foreign scholars of Xinjiang for his hard-liner policies. After the 2009 July riot in Ürümqi, Han Chinese also became frustrated with his leadership because of the slow progress in restoring social order. As a result, many individuals began to call for his resignation in public demonstrations. He was removed from the post in April 2010, and transferred to work on the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission as a Deputy Secretary under
Zhou Yongkang Zhou Yongkang (born 3 December 1942) is a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the 17th Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's highest decision-making body, and the Secretary of the Central Politic ...
. He was replaced by
Zhang Chunxian Zhang Chunxian (; born 12 May 1953) is a Chinese politician best known for his term as the Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps from 201 ...
. Wang remained in the Political and Legal Affairs Committee until the 18th Party Congress when he retired from active politics. In November 2013 Wang became the president of the
China Law Society The China Law Society () is the official people's organization of Chinese legal academic professionals. It was established in 1982 and has sub-institutions of different fields of law, such as jurisprudence, constitutional law, civil law, crimin ...
.


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Biography of Wang Lequan
''People's Daily Online''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Lequan 1944 births Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong Living people Politicians from Weifang People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong Political office-holders in Xinjiang Vice-governors of Shandong Members of the 17th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 16th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party