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Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 9/19/2007
Career Data Updated: 5/24/2010

PHOTO: Wei Jianxing
Wei Jianxing 尉健行
Politburo Standing Committee Member of the 15th CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the 15th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Born: 1931

Biography

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.

Career Data

1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Standing Committee
1997—2002 Secretary, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo, Standing Committee
1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee
1997—2002 Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo
1995—1997 Secretary, CPC, Municipal Committee Beijing Municipality
1995—1997 Member, CPC, Municipal Committee, Standing Committee Beijing Municipality
1993— President, All-China Federation of Trade Unions, Executive Committee
1992— Secretary, CPC, Central Committee, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
1992—1997 Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo
1992—1997 Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee
1987—1992 Member, 13th CPC, Central Committee
1987—1993 Minister, Ministry of Supervision
1984—1987 Head, CPC, Central Committee, Organization Department
1984—1987 Deputy Head, CPC, Central Committee, Organization Department
1983—1984 Vice-President, All-China Federation of Trade Unions
1982—1987 Alternate Member, 12th CPC, Central Committee
1981—1983 Mayor, People's Government Heilongjiang Province, Harbin City
1981—1983 Deputy Secretary, CPC, City Committee Heilongjiang Province, Harbin City
1980—1981 Student, CPC, Central Committee, Central Party School
1955—1980 Functionary, Northeast Light Alloys Processing Factory CPC, Party Committee
1955—1980 Manager, Northeast Light Alloys Processing Factory
1952 Graduate, Dalian Engineering Institute, Mechanical Engineering Department Liaoning Province, Dalian City
1949 Joined, CPC


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