Wu Guanzheng

吴官正
Wu Guanzheng
4th Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
In office
November 2002 – November 2007
General Secretary Hu Jintao
Preceded by Wei Jianxing
Succeeded by He Guoqiang
Member of the 16th CPC Politburo Standing Committee
In office
15 November 2002 – 22 October 2007
General Secretary Hu Jintao
Personal details
Born August 1938
Nationality Chinese
Political party Chinese Communist Party

Wu Guanzheng (simplified Chinese: 吴官正; traditional Chinese: 吳官正; pinyin: Wú Guānzhèng; born August 1938) was the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, an anti-corruption body from 2002 to 2007.

Contents

Career

Wu is a native of Yugan, Jiangxi. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1963. Wu graduated in thermal engineering from Tsinghua University in 1968. Wu was mayor of Wuhan from 1983 to 1986. He became the governor of Jiangxi in 1986, and was the Jiangxi CPC party chief from 1995 to 1997. He moved to Shandong in 1997 to become the party chief of the province and was made a full member of the Politburo the same year.

He is known to have good relationships with both President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin. Some sources consider him to be Hu's ally, while other consider him to be Jiang's. As a result, he is sometimes included in the list of people in the Shanghai clique.

Trivia

See also

External links

Political offices
Preceded by
Ni Xiance
Governor of Jiangxi
1986 – 1995
Succeeded by
Shu Shengyou
Preceded by
Mao Zhiyong
Secretary of CPC Jiangxi Committee
1995 – 1997
Succeeded by
Shu Huiguo
Preceded by
Zhao Zhihao
Secretary of CPC Shandong Committee
1997 – 2002
Succeeded by
Zhang Gaoli
Preceded by
Wei Jianxing
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
2002 – 2007
Succeeded by
He Guoqiang