Wang Lequan -- Politburo member of CPC Central Committee

Source: Xinhuanet | 10-23-2007 10:24

BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Wang Lequan:

Wang Lequan, male, ethnic Han, native of Shouguang, Shandong Province, born in December 1944. Joined the CPC in March 1966 and began working in September 1965. With a postgraduate education at the Central Party School.

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC, and first political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

1965-1966 Engaged in socialist education in Jiaonan County, Shandong Province

1966-1975 Deputy head of Houzhen Commune, Shouguang County, Shandong Province, member of the Standing Committee of the Houzhen Commune Revolutionary Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Houzhen Commune Committee of the CPC, and deputy secretary of the Chengguan Commune Committee of the CPC

1975-1978 Deputy secretary of the Shouguang County Committee of the CPC, Shandong Province and vice chairman of the Shouguang County Revolutionary Committee

1978-1982 Secretary of the Shouguang County Committee of the CPC, Shandong Province and chairman of the Shouguang County Revolutionary Committee

1982-1986 Deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the CYLC (studied in a training program of the Central Party School from 1983 to 1986)

1986-1988 Deputy secretary of the Liaocheng Prefectural Committee of the CPC, Shandong Province

1988-1989 Secretary of the Liaocheng Prefectural Committee of the CPC, Shandong Province

1989-1991 Vice governor of Shandong Province

1991-1992 Member of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC and vice chairman of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

1992-1994 Deputy secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC and vice chairman of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

1994-1995 Acting secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC and vice chairman of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

1995-2002 Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC and first political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

2002- Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC and first political commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps

Alternate member of the Fourteenth CPC Central Committee and member of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth CPC Central Committees. Member of the Political Bureau of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC Central Committees.

Editor:Zhang Ning