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Compiled from the following sources:

Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005

Zhongguo Gongchandang Lijie Zhongyang Weiyuan Dacidian, 1921-2003
Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi chubanshe 2004

XINHUA Online (China View)


Revision History:

Biography Revised: 1/16/2009
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2009

PHOTO: Wang Jun
Wang Jun 王君
Member, 17th CPC, Central Committee; Governor, People's Government, Shanxi Province
Born: 1952
Birthplace: Shanxi Province, Datong City

Biography

Wang Jun, male, Han nationality, is a native of Datong, Shanxi Province. He was born in 1952 and graduated from the Philosophy Department of the Central Party School as an incumbent postgraduate and a senior engineer.

Wang has served in a number of Party-affiliated positions throughout his career. The Party commissioned him to the deputy secretary position of the Datong Mining Bureau. He later became the bureau's director-general and in 1997 moved to the Ministry of Coal Industry to assume the post of deputy minister. In 1998, he moved to the National Coal Industry bureau to serve as the deputy director-general.

Wang Jun served as secretary of the CPC Leading Party Group of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives from 2007-2008. He was an alternate member of the 16th CPC Central Committee and is now a member of the 17th CPC Central Committee. He served as Director of State Administration for Work Safety and in 2009, became governor of Shanxi Province.

Career Data

2009— Governor, People's Government Shanxi Province
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2008—2008 Director, State Administration of Work Safety
2008—2009 Acting Governor, People's Government Shanxi Province
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2008—2009 Vice-Governor, People's Government Shanxi Province
2007—2008 Secretary, All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives CPC, Leading Party Group
2007— Member, 17th CPC, Central Committee
2006—2007 Deputy Secretary, All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives CPC, Leading Party Group
2002—2007 Alternate Member, 16th CPC, Central Committee
2002—2006 President, CPC, Provincial Committee, Party School Jiangxi Province
2001—2006 Deputy Secretary, CPC, Provincial Committee Jiangxi Province
1999—2002 Vice-Governor, People's Government Jiangxi Province
1998—1999 Deputy Director-General, State Coal Industry Bureau
1997—1998 Deputy Minister, Ministry of Coal Industry
1995—1997 Director, Mining Bureau Shanxi Province, Datong City
1993—1995 Deputy Director, Mining Bureau Shanxi Province, Datong City
1990—1991 Student, CPC, Central Committee, Central Party School
1985—1993 Deputy Secretary, Mining Bureau Shanxi Province, Datong City
1985—1986 Student, CPC, Central Committee, Central Party School
1984—1985 Deputy Director, Mining Bureau, Jinhuagong Mine Shanxi Province, Datong City
1982—1984 Chief, Mining Bureau, Jinhuagong Mine, Ventilation Department Shanxi Province, Datong City
1977—1982 Assistant Engineer, Mining Bureau, Jinhuagong Mine Shanxi Province, Datong City
1974—1977 Student, Shanxi Mining Institute Shanxi Province
1971—1974 Miner, Qingciyao Mine, Shanxi Province, Datong City
Graduate, CPC, Central Committee, Central Party School, Philosophy Department

Recent Travel & Appearances

09 Mar 11 Eight million more Chinese to be covered by health insurance in 2011
06 Dec 10 Chinese renewable energy firms encouraged to invest in U.S. market
01 Jun 10 Travelled to Tianjin Municipality
Jia Qinglin delivered a speech during the opening ceremony of a regional economic development forum for enhancing regional economic cooperation.
10 Mar 10 Hu Jintao joined a panel discussion with deputies to the Third Session of the 11th NPC from central China's Henan Province.
18 Sep 09 Hu Jintao and topleaders attended the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China Central Committee.
18 Sep 09 Hu Jintao and topleaders attended the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China Central Committee.
06 Jul 09 Travelled to Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City
Wen Jiabao inspected Shanxi Province.
10 Mar 09 Wen Jiabao and top leaders joined panel discussions with deputies to the Second Session of the 11th NPC.
15 Jan 09 Wang Jun was elected as the governor of Shanxi Province
10 Dec 08 Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao addressed the three-day annual Central Economic Work Conference.