- Wu Guanzheng
Wu Guanzheng (zh-stp|s=吴官正|t=吳官正|p=Wú Guānzhèng) (b. August
1938 ) was the head of theCentral Commission for Discipline Inspection of theCommunist Party of China , an anti-corruption body from 2002 to 2007.Career
Wu is a native of
Yugan ,Jiangxi . He joined theCommunist Party of China in March 1963. Wu graduated inthermal engineering fromTsinghua University in 1968. Wu was mayor ofWuhan from 1983 to 1986. He became the governor ofJiangxi in 1986, and was the JiangxiCPC party chief from1995 to1997 . He moved toShandong 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 President
Hu Jintao and former PresidentJiang 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 theShanghai 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
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Politics of the People's Republic of China External links
* [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography_display.php?id=24 Wu Guanzheng biography @ China Vitae, online database of China VIPs]
*zh [http://www.people.com.cn/GB/shizheng/252/8956/9416/20021115/867507.html Biography of Wu Guanzheng] ,People's Daily Online
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