Zhang Wenyue

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Zhang Wenyue (simplified Chinese: 张文岳; traditional Chinese: 張文岳; born October 1944) is the current Communist Party of China Liaoning provincial committee Secretary, succeeding his colleague Li Keqiang in October 2007.

[edit] Biography

A native of Fengcheng, Jiangxi and a graduate of the China University of Geosciences, Zhang joined the Communist Party of China in June 1965. During the Cultural Revolution Zhang was placed in an army work troupe, subsequently being sent to Sichuan in 1969. Since then his career had been largely concentrated in the geological field until 1995, when he was transferred to work in Xinjiang as the autonomous region's deputy party secretary.

From 1999 to 2001 he served as the commander-in-chief of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, before moving onto Liaoning to succeed Bo Xilai to become the province's governor in 2004.

Preceded by
Xiao Zuofu
Chairman of Liaoning CPPCC
2003 – 2004
Succeeded by
Guo Tingbiao
Preceded by
Bo Xilai
Governor of Liaoning
2004 – 2007
Succeeded by
Chen Zhenggao
Preceded by
Li Keqiang
CPC Liaoning Committee Secretary
2007 – present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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