Wang Junzheng (; born 17 May 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving

Party Secretary of Tibet The secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the Party leader, leader of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Commun ...

since 18 October 2021. He was head of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Xinjiang. Between 2016 and 2019, he was the

Chinese Communist Party Committee 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 ...

Changchun Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin, Jilin Province, China, on the Songliao Plain. Changchun is administered as a , comprising seven districts, one county and three county-level cities. At the 2020 census of China, Changchun ha ...

. Prior to his position in Changchun, he served in a variety of posts, as vice-governor of Hubei, the Party Secretary of

Xiangyang Xiangyang is the second-largest prefecture-level city by population in northwestern Hubei province, China. It was known as Xiangfan from 1950 to 2010. The Han River (Hanshui), Han River runs through Xiangyang's centre and divides the city n ...

, and the mayor and party chief of

Lijiang Lijiang ( zh, s= ), formerly romanized as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) ...

Career

Wang was born in

Linyi Linyi ( zh, s=临沂 , t=臨沂 , p=Línyí) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, China. As of 2011, Linyi is the largest prefecture-level city in Shandong, both by area and population, Linyi borders Rizhao to the eas ...

, Shandong. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) in November 1987. He graduated from

Shandong University Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Clas ...

in the department of social science and socialism. He earned a doctorate degree in the Marxism–Leninism College of

Renmin University The Renmin University of China (RUC) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and ...

. He also has a doctorate in management studies from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

. Wang began his career in the Ministry of Labour. His first regional tenure was in Yunnan province, serving successively as the party chief of Guandu District,

Kunming Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China. The political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province, Kunming is also the seat of the provincial government. During World War II, Kunming was a Ch ...

, the head of the Kunming Political and Legal Affairs department, the head of the municipal Organization Department, and deputy party chief. He was then named vice president of the People's High Court of Yunnan. He was then named mayor then party chief of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...

. In September 2012, he moved out of Yunnan province and was named vice governor of Hubei. In May 2013, he was named party chief of

, then joined 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 ...

two months later. In January 2016, he again transferred inter-provincially to Jilin to join the provincial ruling council there and the party chief of the provincial capital

. During his term in Changchun, the city received nationwide attention for the Changsheng vaccine incident, in which a local firm used expired fluids to produce rabies vaccines. On February 11, 2019, Wang was transferred to Xinjiang to serve as the head of the regional Political and Legal Affairs Commission (''Zhengfawei''). On March 22, 2021, the

United States Treasury Department The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and ...

“... unveiled new sanctions against two Chinese officials in response to ‘serious human rights abuse’ against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. The sanctions, which target Wang Junzheng, secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, were rolled out in coordination with Canada and European allies.” On 18 October 2021, he was transferred to

southwest China Southwestern China () is a region in the People's Republic of China. It consists of five provincial administrative regions, namely Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Xizang. Geography Southwestern China is a rugged and mountainous region, ...

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China. It was established in 1965 to replace the ...

and appointed

, the top political position in the region.

References

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