Wang Yang | |
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汪洋 | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:2019_Wang_Yang.jpg) Wang in 2019 | |
| 9th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |
| In office 14 March 2018 – 10 March 2023 | |
| Vice Chairpersons | |
| Secretary-General | Xia Baolong Li Bin |
| Preceded by | Yu Zhengsheng |
| Succeeded by | Wang Huning |
| Vice Premier of China | |
| In office 16 March 2013 – 19 March 2018 | |
| Premier | Li Keqiang |
| Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong | |
| In office 1 December 2007 – 18 December 2012 | |
| Deputy | Huang Huahua Zhu Xiaodan (Governor of Guangdong) |
| Preceded by | Zhang Dejiang |
| Succeeded by | Hu Chunhua |
| Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing | |
| In office 24 December 2005 – 1 December 2007 | |
| Deputy | Wang Hongju (mayor) |
| Preceded by | Huang Zhendong |
| Succeeded by | Bo Xilai |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 March 1955[citation needed] Suzhou, Anhui |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1975-present) |
| Children | Wang Xisha (daughter) |
| Alma mater | Central Party School, College of Continuing Education University of Science and Technology of China |
| Cabinet | Li Keqiang Government |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Wang_Yang_(Chinese_characters).svg) "Wang Yang" in Chinese characters | |||||||||
| Chinese | 汪洋 | ||||||||
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Wang Yang (Chinese: 汪洋; born 5[citation needed] March 1955) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 2018 to 2023. He was also the fourth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 to 2022.
Wang was born in Anhui, where he began his initial political career. He joined the central government in 1999, serving in various posts at the State Council until 2005. He was appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing in 2005, and later became the Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong and a member of the Politburo in 2007. During his tenure in Guangdong, he pursued relatively liberal economic and social policies, dubbed the "Guangdong model" and contrasted with the more leftist model advocated by Bo Xilai, who succeeded Wang as the Chongqing Communist Party Secretary.
From 2013 to 2018, Wang served as vice premier in charge of agriculture, water management, commerce, tourism, and poverty reduction under Premier Li Keqiang. He was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2017, becoming its fourth-ranking member. He was appointed as the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2018. Wang retired from the PSC in 2022, and was succeeded by Wang Huning as the CPPCC chair in 2023.