Wang Renzhong (; January 15, 1917 – March 16, 1992) was a Chinese political leader. He was born to a peasant family in

Jing County, Hebei Jing County or Jingxian () is a County (People's Republic of China), county in Hengshui, Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and has 500,000 inhabitants. Its seat is the town of Jingzhou, Jing County, Hebei, Jingzhou (). ...

. In November 1933, 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). From 1938, he served as the vice director of

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

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Henan Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ...

CCP Publicity Department, director of South Hebei CPC Propaganda Department, and as a party group secretary. After 1945, he became the director of South Hebei CCP Administrative Office. After 1949, he arrived in

Wuhan Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...

with the army, and was appointed a standing member of

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Provincial Party Committee and vice president of People's Government of Hubei Province. In 1954 he became First Secretary (Party Chief) of the Hubei Communist Party Committee, the top leader of the province. He was very active in the

Great Leap Forward The Great Leap Forward was an industrialization campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to transform the country from an agrarian society into an indu ...

period, but was purged during the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...

, and imprisoned for eight years until 1975. In 1978 he became the vice-premier of the State Council, and from 1980 to 1982 he served as the head of Propaganda Department.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Renzhong 1917 births 1992 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Heads of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party Politicians from Hengshui Mayors of Wuhan Vice premiers of the People's Republic of China Political office-holders in Hubei Victims of the Cultural Revolution Members of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei Vice chairpersons of the National People's Congress Vice chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference