Wang Rong (politician)
| Wang Rong | |
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| 王荣 | |
| Chairman of the Guangdong People's Political Consultative Conference | |
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Assumed office February 10, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Zhu Mingguo |
| Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen | |
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In office April 10, 2010 – March 26, 2015 |
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| Deputy | Xu Qin (mayor) |
| Preceded by | Liu Yupu (刘玉浦) |
| Succeeded by | Ma Xingrui |
| Communist Party Secretary of Suzhou | |
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In office October 2004 – August 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Wang Min |
| Succeeded by | Jiang Hongkun |
| Communist Party Secretary of Wuxi | |
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In office February 2003 – November 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Jiang Dingzhi |
| Succeeded by | Yang Weize |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 1958 (age 58) Binhai County, Jiangsu, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Wang Rong (simplified Chinese: 王荣; traditional Chinese: 王榮; pinyin: Wáng Róng; born April 1958) is a Chinese politician who has served in prominent regional posts in Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Guangdong People's Political Consultative Conference, a mostly ceremonial political advisory body.
Wang spent much of his career in his native Jiangsu province. He has an academic background in the field of agriculture. He served successively as the party chief of the cities of Wuxi and Suzhou in Jiangsu, before being transferred in 2010 to serve as acting mayor, then Party Secretary of Shenzhen, a position he served in until 2015. Wang is an alternate member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees of the Communist Party.
Born in 1958 in Binhai County, in northern Jiangsu province, Wang worked in a rural commune in the latter years of the Cultural Revolution. He joined the Communist Party in 1976, the year Mao died. He became part of the first batch of students to return to school after China's higher education system was dismantled as part of the Cultural Revolution.
Wang spent much of his earlier career in academia. He enrolled in Nanjing Agricultural College and earned a degree in agriculture and economic management in 1982. He continued his studies for the next six years, earning a master's, then a doctorate in his field. By 1989, he became a lecturer at the university, and then an associate dean in the economics and trade school. He then became assistant to the school's president. In 1991 he earned the opportunity to study abroad at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In 1992 he returned to China and served as the chief administrator for the university's president, before becoming Vice President of the University.
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