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Biography

Wang Exiang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Gongan, Hubei province. He was born in 1956, attended Wuhan University and Yale University in the USA, and obtained a doctorate in the law in 1988.

Wang enjoys the special subsidy of the Chinese government. He was appointed as the deputy president of the Supreme People's Court in the 15th Session People's Congress in April 2000, and is now a member of the 9th Session Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a standing member of the Revolutionary Guomindang Party Central Committee.

Wang once presided over national legal topics in the social sciences during the period of the 8th Five-Year and the 9th Five-Year Plans, key legal topics supported by the national social science fund, the fund of the National Education Ministry, and international cooperation projects. Wan founded the Rights Protection Center of the Weak at Wuhan University, which is the first legal aid institution ever established in Chinese history.

His works include: International Human Right Laws, International Treaty Laws, Comments on the Cases of the Human Right Court of Europe, and International Law. Of his more than 20 works, Deepening Reform and Creating First-rate International Law Teaching Base was awarded the first place prize for outstanding teaching results on the national level in 1994, and the first-place prize of Hubei province. His International Force Law and International Public Policy was awarded second-place prize for outstanding social science results by Hubei province in 1995.

In 2013 he became Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th NPC.