Wei Jianxing, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, and was born in 1931. He joined the Party in 1949 and studied mechanical engineering in Dalian, Liaoning Province, followed by two years study of enterprise management in a factory in the Soviet Union.
Returning to China in 1955, Wei held a variety of industrial and Party posts before being accepted for study at the Party School from 1980 to 1981. He then rose quickly in the trade union and Party structures, holding various senior posts in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province and in the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He was subsequently elected president of this federation twice in 1993 and 1998.
Wei was elected as an alternate member of the 12th CPC Central Committee in 1982, and as a full member of the 13th, 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees. He became a member of the Politburo in the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees, a standing committee member of the Politburo of the 15th CPC Central Committee, and he was named secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in 1992 and 1997. Wei was also a standing committee member of the CPC Municipal Committee in Beijing from 1995 to 1997.