Mao Wanchun (; born October 1961) is a Chinese politician who is the current chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the

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. He served as Chairman of the

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Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from January 2018 to January 2023. He was formerly

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province. Mao spent much of his early career in his native

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province, where he served as Party Chief of

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Biography

Mao was born in

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, Henan. He worked as a

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during the

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. He attended

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, where he obtained a degree in political instruction. His political career grew from his involvement in the

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, becoming county governor of Lin County in 1991, at 30 years of age. In 1994, Mao became party chief of the newly founded city of Linzhou. He later served as deputy party chief of

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, mayor of

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, then party chief of Xuchang. In July 2010 he was named to the

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of Henan province, and became party chief of

. Having entered the

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as an alternate in November 2012, in May the following year, Mao was tapped to replace

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as the Organization Department head in Shaanxi province, leaving his native province for the first time. In August 2014, under Mao's leadership, the Shaanxi party leadership released a set of guidelines on the disclosure of assets of newly promoted public officials, the first province to issue guidelines of this kind. In October 2014, Mao was elevated from alternate to full membership on the committee after the expulsion of Jiang Jiemin from the body due to corruption.马建堂、王作安、毛万春递补为中央委员会委员
/ref> In January 2023, he was transferred to

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

and appointed chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Mao was the third-ranked alternate of the

18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 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 ...

, meaning he received an overwhelming number of confirmation votes for his Central Committee membership at the

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in November 2012. In 2017 he was again elected an alternate of the 19th Central Committee.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mao, Wanchun 1961 births Politicians from Anyang Living people Henan University alumni Alternates of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Alternates of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Deputy Communist Party secretaries of Shaanxi Chairpersons of the CPPCC Hunan Provincial Committee Chairpersons of the CPPCC Hainan Provincial Committee