Wang Xiankui (; born July 1952) is a Chinese politician best known for his terms as governor, then

Party Secretary In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In s ...

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Us ...

, a province in the northeast part of the country. Wang worked in various capacities in the railway system before entering politics in 2003 as the deputy party chief of

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

province.

Career

Wang Xiankui was born in 1952 in Cang County,

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 ...

province. He joined the

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in May 1974. Wang entered the workforce in March 1971 as a railway worker, then train conductor, with the

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

Railway Bureau in

province. As part of his work in railways, he was stationed in

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. He served as Communist Youth League leader, then party chief, of the Mudanjiang train station, then deputy chief of the Mudanjiang Branch of the Harbin Bureau. In 1996, he was named head of the Hohhot Railway Bureau in

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, where he served until January 1999. He was then transferred to work for the Ministry of Railways, where he served as head of the political department. From 1981 to 1984 Wang studied transportation at East China Jiaotong University and then Southwest Jiaotong University, although his official biography does not list any degrees obtained from these institutions. He is, however, listed as having received a graduate degree from the Central Party School in economic management in 1998, during his tenure as head of the Hohhot Railway Bureau. In April 2003, Wang was appointed

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province, and in October 2006 he was transferred to the same position in

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province. He was transferred yet again in August 2010 to Heilongjiang province, where he was appointed acting governor, succeeding

Li Zhanshu Li Zhanshu (born 30 August 1951) is a Chinese retired politician, who was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2018 to 2023. He was the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Ch ...

. He was formally confirmed as Governor by the Heilongjiang Provincial Congress in November 2010. In March 2013 he was promoted to Party Secretary of Heilongjiang, succeeding Ji Bingxuan, who became a Vice Chairman of the

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. Wang was replaced as Governor by Lu Hao. Wang was an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee, and a full member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Xiankui Living people 1952 births Governors of Heilongjiang CCP committee secretaries of Heilongjiang Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Political office-holders in Gansu Political office-holders in Jiangxi Politicians from Cangzhou