Wang Huizhong (; born February 1956) is a Chinese politician from

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , Chinese postal romanization, also romanized as Chekiang) is an East China, eastern, coastal Provinces of China, province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable citie ...

province. He has served as the

Deputy Communist Party Secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the deput ...

of Zhejiang from 2013 to 2016. Wang was born in

Yiwu Yiwu () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua in Central Zhejiang Province, East China. As of the 2020 census, the city had 1,859,390 inhabitants and its built-up (or metro) area, joined with that of the neighboring Dongy ...

, Zhejiang province. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1978. He first worked in a commune. He attended

Zhejiang A & F University Zhejiang A & F University (ZAFU; ), formerly referred to as Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, is a provincial university established in 1958. It is in Lin'an District, Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also rom ...

beginning in 1980, then returned to Yiwu County. In March 1993, he was named head of the Communist Youth League organization in Zhejiang province. In October 1995, he was transferred to Zhoushan to work as deputy party chief and Organization Department chief. In May 1997, he was named mayor of Zhoushan. In March 1999 he was promoted to party chief of Zhoushan. In February 2003, he was named head of the Zhejiang police force; by May 2003, he was a member of the

provincial Party Standing Committee Members of the standing committees of the Chinese Communist Party provincial-level committees, commonly referred to as ''Shengwei Changwei'' (), make up the top ranks of the provincial-level organizations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I ...

. In June 2007, he became head of the provincial Political and Legal Affairs Department. In 2010, he became party chief of Ningbo. In April 2013, Wang was named deputy party chief of Zhejiang; he was then named in May as the head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang. In January 2016, Wang, then nearing 60, became Vice-Chair of the Zhejiang People's Congress.He retired at the age of 61,in January 2018. Wang is an alternate member of the

18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China The 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 18th National Congress on 15 November 2012, and sat in plenary sessions until the communing of the 19th National Congress in 2017. It was formally proceeded by the 17t ...

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