Editing Wu Guanzheng

{{Short description|Chinese politician (born 1938)}}
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| name = Wu Guanzheng
| native_name = {{lang|zh-hans|{{nobold|吴官正}}}}
| image = 
| nationality = [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]]
| order        = [[Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]]
| deputy = [[He Yong (politician)|He Yong]]
| term_start = 15 November 2002
| term_end = 22 October 2007
| predecessor = [[Wei Jianxing]]
| successor = [[He Guoqiang]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1938|08|11}}
| birth_place = [[Yugan County]], [[Jiangxi]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]]
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| party = [[Chinese Communist Party]]
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'''Wu Guanzheng''' (born 11 August 1938), also spelled as '''Wu Kuan-cheng''' is a former Chinese politician and one of the major leaders of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] during the administration of [[Hu Jintao]]. He served on the [[Politburo Standing Committee]], the country's top ruling body, from 2002 to 2007. During that time he also served as the [[Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]] of the [[Chinese Communist Party]], the party's anti-graft body. He had a lengthy political career, having served as mayor of [[Wuhan]], Governor then Party Secretary of Jiangxi, then party chief of [[Shandong]]. Wu retired in 2007 and left public life.

==Career==
Wu was born in [[Yugan County]], [[Jiangxi]] province to a poor peasant family. He joined the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in March 1963. Wu graduated from the department of thermal engineering at Beijing's [[Tsinghua University]] in 1968, where he studied thermal measurement and automated controls. He was then sent to [[Wuhan]] during the [[Cultural Revolution]] to work as a shop floor technician at the Gedian Chemical Engineering factory, where he was promoted to supervisor a few years later.<ref name=xinhua>{{cite news|title=吴官正简历|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-01/16/content_240542.htm|agency=Xinhua News Agency|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119081316/http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-01/16/content_240542.htm|archivedate=19 January 2016}}</ref>

Wu served as the mayor of [[Wuhan]] from 1983 to 1986. He became the governor of his native province [[Jiangxi]] in 1986 after the removal of [[Ni Xiance]] by the provincial People's Congress. He was later promoted to Jiangxi party chief and served between 1995 and 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. It was said that [[Zeng Qinghong]], a major confidant of then party General Secretary and President [[Jiang Zemin]], was fond of Wu's work, and recommended him for further elevation, resulting in his promotion to the Politburo in 1997.<ref name=changwei>{{cite news|title=曾庆红向江泽民力荐吴官正|url=http://news.creaders.net/china/2000/08/15/534811.html|work=C-readers|agency=Duowei|date=15 August 2000}}</ref>

Thereafter, Wu was known to have cultivated good relationships with both Jiang Zemin and his putative successor [[Hu Jintao]]. Wu and Hu graduated in the same year, both of them alumni of Tsinghua University. Some sources considered him to be Hu's ally, while other consider him to be Jiang's. As a result, he was sometimes included in the list of people in the [[Shanghai clique]].  In 2002, Wu joined the [[Politburo Standing Committee]] as the head of the [[Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]], the party's anti-graft agency. Wu was seen as an easy compromise candidate since he had "cross-factional appeal". During Wu's time in office on leading CCDI, Shanghai Party Secretary [[Chen Liangyu]] has been investigated and arrested by CCDI.<ref name=xinhua/>

Wu Guanzheng retired from Standing Committee and Central Commission for Discipline Inspection after the 17th Party Congress in October 2007.

==External links==
*[http://www.chinavitae.com/biography_display.php?id=24 Wu Guanzheng biography @ China Vitae, online database of China VIPs]
*{{in lang|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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{{Succession box| before =[[Mao Zhiyong]] | title = [[Party Secretary of Jiangxi]]| years = 1995–1997 | after =[[Shu Huiguo]] }}
{{Succession box| before =[[Zhao Zhihao]] | title = [[Party Secretary of Shandong]]| years = 1997–2002 | after =[[Zhang Gaoli]] }}
{{Succession box| before = [[Wei Jianxing]] | title = [[Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]] | years = 2002–2007 | after = [[He Guoqiang]]}}
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