Wu Guanzheng

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wu.

吴官正 Wu Guanzheng
4th Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
In office November 2002 – November 2007
General Secretary	Hu Jintao
Preceded by	Wei Jianxing
Succeeded by	He Guoqiang
Member of the 16th CPC Politburo Standing Committee
In office 15 November 2002 – 22 October 2007
General Secretary	Hu Jintao
Personal details
Born	August 1938
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Chinese Communist Party

Wu Guanzheng (simplified Chinese: 吴官正; traditional Chinese: 吳官正; pinyin: Wú Guānzhèng; born August 1938) was the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, an anti-corruption body from 2002 to 2007.

Career

Wu is a native of Yugan, Jiangxi. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1963. Wu graduated in thermal engineering from Tsinghua University in 1968. Wu was mayor of Wuhan from 1983 to 1986. He became the governor of Jiangxi in 1986, and was the Jiangxi CPC party chief from 1995 to 1997. He moved to Shandong in 1997 to become the party chief of the province and was made a full member of the Politburo the same year.

He is known to have good relationships with both General Secretary Hu Jintao and former General Secretary Jiang Zemin. Some sources consider him to be Hu's ally, while other consider him to be Jiang's. As a result, he is sometimes included in the list of people in the Shanghai clique.

Trivia

• Wu's name, when sounded phonetically, spells out a phrase that seems to say "No government official is clean (or upright)". This is a widely-known irony because Wu is the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the organization in charge of cracking down on corrupt officials.

See also

• Politics of the People's Republic of China

External links

• Wu Guanzheng biography @ China Vitae, online database of China VIPs
• (Chinese) Biography of Wu Guanzheng, People's Daily Online

Political offices
Preceded by Ni Xiance	Governor of Jiangxi 1986 – 1995	Succeeded by Shu Shengyou
Preceded by Mao Zhiyong	Secretary of CPC Jiangxi Committee 1995 – 1997	Succeeded by Shu Huiguo
Preceded by Zhao Zhihao	Secretary of CPC Shandong Committee 1997 – 2002	Succeeded by Zhang Gaoli
Preceded by Wei Jianxing	Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection 2002 – 2007	Succeeded by He Guoqiang