Miao Wei (; born May 1955) is a Chinese manufacturing executive and politician. He was the Minister of Industry and Information Technology until August 2020 and as well as the former

Communist Party Chief 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 ...

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, capital of

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province. Prior to that Miao was President of

Dongfeng Motor Dongfeng Motor Corporation Ltd. is a Chinese State-owned enterprises of China, state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhan, Hubei. Founded in 1969, it is currently the smallest of the "Automotive industry in China, Big Four" state ...

, China's then second biggest carmaker. He was credited with rescuing Dongfeng from near bankruptcy and turning it into a profitable company.

Career

Miao Wei is a native of

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. Beginning to 1974 he worked as a

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in rural

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province. After the

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he was admitted to

Hefei University of Technology The Hefei University of Technology (HFUT; ) is a public university in Hefei, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded with the Anhui Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Tec ...

in 1978, where he studied at the department of the industrial engineering, graduating in 1982. He joined the

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in September 1984. After college, Miao worked for the China Auto Import-Export Corporation for ten years. By the age of 30 he was deputy manager for the company's sales division as well as the manufacturing division. In 1993 he was transferred to the then First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, where he was the Deputy Director of the Automobile Department until 1995 and Assistant General Engineer for the next two years. In September 1997 the central government transferred Miao to the government-owned

Dongfeng Motor Corporation Dongfeng Motor Corporation Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhan, Hubei. Founded in 1969, it is currently the smallest of the " Big Four" state-owned car manufacturers of China with 671,000 sales in 2023, b ...

to lead its turnaround effort. Then China's second-biggest carmaker, Dongfeng had 120,000 employees and lost over 500 million yuan in 1998. Miao implemented radical reforms at Dongfeng, adopting Western management methodology and establishing alliances with foreign carmakers

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and

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. The company turned a profit within two years, and by 2003 its profits had rocketed to 6.1 billion yuan. In 2004 ''

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'' nominated Miao Wei as a "Star of Asia" for "transform ngDongfeng from an almost bankrupt military truck maker into a profitable manufacturer of both trucks and passenger cars." In May 2005 Miao Wei was appointed the

, capital of

province and where Dongfeng is headquartered. He was also made a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. In March 2008 Miao was transferred to the central government to serve as Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, and was promoted to Minister in December 2010, replacing Li Yizhong. Miao was an alternate of the

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, and is a full member of the 18th Central Committee.

References

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