Wu Wenying, female, Han nationality, is a native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province. She was born in 1933 and joined the CPC in 1949. She graduated from the Huadong Textile and Technology Institute, was an alternate member of 12th CPC Central Committee, and a member of 13th and 14th CPC Central Committees. Wu was publicly disgraced in an 1996 insider trading scandal and lost her positions in 2000.