Wang Yang (official)
| Wang Yang | |
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| 汪洋 | |
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| Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | |
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Assumed office 16 March 2013 Serving with Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Ma Kai |
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| Premier | Li Keqiang |
| Preceded by | Zhang Dejiang |
| Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong | |
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In office 22 October 2007 – 18 December 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Zhang Dejiang |
| Succeeded by | Hu Chunhua |
| Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing | |
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In office December 2005 – October 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Huang Zhendong |
| Succeeded by | Bo Xilai |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 March 1955 Suzhou, Anhui, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Alma mater |
Central Party School, College of Continuing Education University of Science and Technology of China |
| Cabinet | Li Keqiang Government |
Wang Yang (Chinese: 汪洋; pinyin: Wāng Yáng; born 12 March 1955) is a high-ranking Chinese politician. He is one of the four Vice Premiers of China in Premier Li Keqiang's Government. Until January 2013, he served as the Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong; the southern Chinese province's top office. He served as the party secretary of Chongqing, an interior municipality, from 2005 to 2007. First as the holder of an important regional post, and now as a vice premier, Wang also holds a seat on the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, the country's ruling council.
Wang is seen as one of the leading reformers in China's top leadership, and is often credited with pioneering the Guangdong model of development, characterized by an emphasis on private enterprise, economic growth and a greater role for civil society. He is widely considered to be one of the most strongly 'liberal' members of the Chinese elite, advocating for economic and political reform.
Wang was born in Suzhou, Anhui, to an ordinary urban working-class family. His father was a manual labourer. Between 1972 and 1976, he worked as a food processing factory hand before being promoted to supervisor. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1975. He subsequently joined the local Party School as an instructor, before going on to study political economics at the dawn of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms at the Central Party School in 1979. He returned to his hometown as a party policy instructor before joining the local Communist Youth League organization – where he would ascend to the provincial organization by 1984. He then moved on to work as the Deputy Director and Director of the Anhui Provincial Sports Bureau until 1988.
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