Wang Xuejun (; born December 1952) is a Chinese politician and former senior regional official. He served as the Governor of Anhui from 2013 to 2015, then was promoted to

Communist Party 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 ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

, a position he held from 2015 to 2016.

Career

Wang Xuejun is a native of Nanpi County,

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

province. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

in July 1975. He is a graduate of Hebei Institute of Technology (now Hebei University of Technology). He began work as a regular factory worker. He climbed the ranks in

Cangzhou Cangzhou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. At the 2020 census, Cangzhou's built-up (''or metro'') area made of Yunhe, Xinhua districts and Cang County largely being conurbated had a populatio ...

, Hebei, eventually rising to become the city's vice mayor. He then served as party chief of

Langfang Langfang () is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, which was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It was renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a municipality and finally upgraded into a prefecture-level city in 1988. Lang ...

. He worked in his native Hebei until 2004. From 2004 to 2013 he was transferred to Beijing to head the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, the agency in charge of processing petitions from ordinary citizens. In March 2013 Wang was transferred to

province to become its acting governor, replacing Li Bin, who was appointed chairperson of the newly formed

National Health and Family Planning Commission The National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China (NHFPC) was a cabinet-level executive department under the State Council which is responsible for providing information, raising health awareness and education, ...

. Wang Xuejun has been a full member of the

17th 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number. Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers. In mathematics 17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...

and the 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. On June 1, 2015, Wang replaced

Zhang Baoshun Zhang Baoshun (; born February 1950) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China, and the former Communist Party Secretary of east China's Anhui province. Early life Zhang was born in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, on February 27, 1950. Ca ...

, who had reached retirement age, as the Party Secretary of Anhui province. Wang's term as party chief was brief. He was relieved of the post just over one year later, on August 29, 2016. He left frontline politics and joined the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee as a deputy chair.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Xuejun Living people 1952 births Governors of Anhui Political office-holders in Hebei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Politicians from Cangzhou Hebei University of Technology alumni