Wu Zhenglong

State Councilor of the People’s Republic of ChinaAssumed office
12 March 2023PremierLi Qiang14th Secretary General of the State CouncilAssumed office
12 March 2023PremierLi QiangPreceded byXiao JieCommunist Party Secretary of JiangsuIn office
18 October 2021 – 28 December 2022DeputyXu Kunlin (Governor)Preceded byLou QinjianSucceeded byXin ChangxingChairman of Jiangsu People's CongressIn office
23 January 2022 – January 2023Preceded byLou QinjianSucceeded byXin ChangxingGovernor of JiangsuIn office
May 2017 – August 2021Preceded byShi TaifengSucceeded byXu KunlinCommunist Party Secretary of NanjingIn office
October 2016 – May 2017Preceded byHuang LixinSucceeded byZhang JinghuaCommunist Party Secretary of TaiyuanIn office
September 2014 – October 2016Preceded byChen ChuanpingSucceeded byWang Weizhong Personal detailsBornNovember 1964 (age 59)
Gaochun County, JiangsuPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materTaiyuan Machinery CollegeChinese nameSimplified Chinese吴政隆Traditional Chinese吳政隆

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wú Zhènglóng

Wu Zhenglong (Chinese: 吴政隆; born November 1964) is a Chinese politician and who is currently a state councilor and the secretary-general of the State Council. Previously, he was Governor of Jiangsu and also served as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Nanjing and Jiangsu. Born in Jiangsu, Wu served in Chongqing, then Shanxi, earlier in his career, before being transferred back to his home province, where he experienced a series of rapid promotions.

Biography

Wu was born in Gaochun County, Jiangsu province. He graduated in 1984 from the Taiyuan Mechanical College (later renamed North University of China), where he studied machinery and equipment manufacturing, and worked in the military supply and industry ministry, before being transferred to the National Planning Commission to work as a political secretary. In 1999 he became deputy secretary-general of the Chongqing municipal government shortly after it became a direct-controlled municipality; he was then named deputy governor of Wanzhou District, then governor, then the party chief. Considered a "political survivor" in Chongqing, Wu served in the administration of then Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, who was ousted in 2012. In May 2013 Wu was named secretary-general of the party committee, and a member of the CCP provincial standing committee of Chonqging.^[1]

In 2014, Chen Chuanping was abruptly removed from office as party chief of Taiyuan as part of a corruption probe. Wu was 'parachuted' in as the new party chief of Taiyuan in August 2014; he also earned an ex officio seat on the provincial party standing committee. Wu served in Shanxi for two years, before being transferred back to his home province of Jiangsu to take on the post of deputy party chief and party chief of the provincial capital Nanjing, a clear promotion and indication that he was being groomed to higher office. In May 2017, Wu was appointed acting Governor of Jiangsu.^[2] On 18 October 2021, he was promoted to Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Jiangsu, the top political position in province.^{[citation needed]}

Wu was a delegate to the 11th National People's Congress, elected in 2008. Wu was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a full member of the 19th Central Committee.^[3]

References

Party political offices
Preceded by Chen Chuanping	Communist Party Secretary of Taiyuan 2014–2016	Succeeded by Wang Weizhong
Preceded by Shi Taifeng	Deputy Party Secretary of Jiangsu 2016–2017	Succeeded by Huang Lixin
Preceded by Huang Lixin	Communist Party Secretary of Nanjing 2016–2017	Succeeded by Zhang Jinghua
Preceded by Lou Qinjian	Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu 2021–2022	Succeeded by Xin Changxing
Assembly seats
Preceded by Lou Qinjian	Chairman of Jiangsu People's Congress 2022–2023	Succeeded by Xin Changxing
Government offices
Preceded by Shi Taifeng	Governor of Jiangsu 2017–2021	Succeeded by Xu Kunlin
Preceded by Xiao Jie	Secretary General of the State Council 2023–present	Incumbent