Wang Wentao

Minister of CommerceAssumed office
26 December 2020PremierLi Keqiang
(2020–2023)
Li Qiang
(since 2023)Preceded byZhong ShanGovernor of HeilongjiangIn office
March 2018 – December 2020Preceded byLu HaoSucceeded byHu ChangshengCommunist Party Secretary of JinanIn office
March 2015 – March 2018Preceded byWang MinSucceeded byWang Zhonglin Personal detailsBornMay 1964 (age 60)
Nantong, JiangsuPolitical partyChinese Communist Party (1994-present)Alma materFudan University

Wang Wentao (simplified Chinese: 王文涛; traditional Chinese: 王文濤; pinyin: Wáng Wéntāo; born May 1964) is a Chinese politician who has been Minister of Commerce since December 2020. He formerly served as Communist Party Secretary of Jinan and Deputy Party Secretary of Shandong province.

Career

Wang was born in 1964 in Nantong, Jiangsu province. He attended Fudan University in Shanghai, graduating with a degree in philosophy. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1994. After graduation he worked as an instructor at career institute of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology; he also served as the head of the Communist Youth League organization at the institute, as well as the managing the sales of photocopying machines. He was later transferred to work as mayor of the town of Wuku in the Songjiang District, then promoted to party chief of Liugang. Then he served as deputy governor of Songjiang District in Shanghai and head of urban planning; he was also in charge of industrial development, the technology park, and export growth.

In January 2005, Wang was then transferred to Kunming to become deputy party chief, then mayor. Then he was transferred back to Shanghai to serve as deputy party chief and later governor of Huangpu District. In April 2011 he was named a provincial Party Standing Committee member of Jiangxi and party chief of the provincial capital Nanchang.^[1]

In March 2015, Wang was named Party Secretary of Jinan and joined the Shandong Shengwei Changwei; he replaced Wang Min, who was dismissed for corruption. In April 2017, Wang was named deputy party chief of Shandong.^[2] On 26 March 2018, he was appointed acting Governor of Heilongjiang province, replacing Lu Hao. He was confirmed as Governor on 15 May.^[3] Wang was appointed Minister of Commerce in December 2020. In October 2022, after the 20th CCP National Congress, Wang was appointed as a full member of the CCP Central Committee. Wang was previously an alternate member of the 18th and the 19th Central Committees of the CCP.

References

Government offices
Preceded by Zhong Shan	Minister of Commerce 2020–	Incumbent
Preceded by Lu Hao	Governor of Heilongjiang 2018–2020	Succeeded by Hu Changsheng
Party political offices
Preceded by Wang Min	Communist Party Secretary of Jinan 2015–2018	Succeeded by Wang Zhonglin
Preceded by Gong Zheng	Deputy Party Secretary of Shandong 2017–2018	Succeeded by Yang Dongqi