Wu Yingjie
吴英杰
Wu in 2019
Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region
In office
28 August 2016 – 18 October 2021
DeputyLosang Jamcan
Che Dalha (chairman)
Preceded byChen Quanguo
Succeeded byWang Junzheng
Personal details
BornDecember 1956 (age 67)
Changyi County, Shandong
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materTibet Minzu University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese吴英杰
Traditional Chinese吳英傑

Wu Yingjie (Chinese: 吴英杰; born December 1956) is a Chinese politician based in Tibet who formerly served as Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the top official in Tibet. Originally from Shandong province, Wu grew up in Tibet and worked for his entire career in the region. He became Deputy Party Secretary of Tibet in 2011 and served in the post for nearly five years before being elevated to party chief.

Biography

Wu was born in Changyi County, Shandong province. His father received a job assignment in the Tibetan Plateau when he was just one year old, so he moved to the region with his family. He arrived in Nyingchi in October 1974 as a rusticated youth during the Cultural Revolution. Wu is a graduate of the Tibet Minzu University and took part in leadership education at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.[1] In 1977 he began working for a power generation station in the western suburbs of Lhasa. In August 1983 he joined the Tibet Autonomous Region's department of education. He would work in education for the next two decades. In 1987 he began overseeing elementary and secondary education as a regional bureaucrat. In 1990, he was put in charge of accepting donations of educational resources from other parts of the country. In 1994 he joined the Autonomous Region Education Commission, rising to deputy secretary in May 1998. In March 2000 he was named deputy head of the education department, then promoted to head in 2000.

In January 2003, Wu was named Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region; in June 2005 he took on the regional propaganda portfolio, and joined the regional party standing committee next month. In November 2006 he became Executive Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In November 2011 he was named deputy regional party chief. In April 2013 he was named executive deputy party chief. In August 2016, he became the Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Wu leaped directly from the deputy party chief position into the office of the party secretary, breaking a tradition that TAR party chiefs would be appointed from other regions in China.[1]

On 23 October 2021, he was appointed vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee.[2]

U.S. sanctions

Further information: United States sanctions against China

In December 2022, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Wu under the Global Magnitsky Act for human rights abuses in Tibet.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b 吴英杰任西藏自治区党委书记 陈全国另有任用(图). Ifeng. 28 August 2016.
  2. ^ 刘家义任第十三届全国人大财经委员会副主任委员. thepaper (in Chinese). 23 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  3. ^ Willemyns, Alex (9 December 2022). "U.S. issues slew of sanctions ahead of Human Rights Day". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Treasury Sanctions Over 40 Individuals and Entities Across Nine Countries Connected to Corruption and Human Rights Abuse". U.S. Department of the Treasury. December 9, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
Government offices Preceded by? Director of Education Department of Tibet Autonomous Region 2000–2003 Succeeded bySong Heping Preceded byYang Song [zh] Executive Vice Chairman of Tibet 2006–2013 Succeeded byDeng Xiaogang Party political offices Preceded byGou Tianlin [zh] Head of the Propaganda Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 2005–2006 Succeeded byCui Yuying Preceded byQiangba Puncog Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Tibet 2013–2016 Succeeded byDeng Xiaogang Preceded byChen Quanguo Communist Party Secretary of Tibet 2016–2021 Succeeded byWang Junzheng
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