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Wang Kuang-wei
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Wang Kuang-wei, one of Communist China’s more important economic planners, has held senior posts in the State Planning Commission since its establishment in 1952. He first emerged as an administrator in the postwar period in Manchuria, serving in those portions of Nun-chiang province under Communist control.
Education
He was educated locally.
Career
Until abolished as a province by the Communists in late 1948, Nunchiang was subordinate to the multi-provincial government organ known as the Northeast Administrative Committee (NEAC). In 1949 Wang was serving as a deputy secretary-general of the NEAC, and when it was reorganized into the Northeast People's Government (NEPG) in August 1949 he retained this position. In September 1951 Wang assumed another NEPG administrative post, becoming director of its Staff Office. Concurrent with his work for the regionwide NEPG was Wang’s post as secretary-general of the Kirin Provincial People’s Government in 1951, in the same year he was secretary-general of the United Front Work Department of the CCP’s Northeast Bureau.
Aside from an article for the MOP of January 22, 1951, on one of China’s first agricultural producer cooperatives and his leadership of a team to inspect spring plowing in the northeast in 1952, little information is available on Wang's work in Manchuria. In late 1952, in anticipation of the First Five-Year Plan which began in 1953, the Communists formed the State Planning Commission. By October 1953 Wang had been brought to Peking from the northeast to work in the commission as a deputy secretary-general. His rise in this important organization, the one charged with long-range economic planning, has been steady since he first joined it in 1953. When the commission was completely reorganized in September-October 1954 (during a general government reorganization), Wang was named as a commission member and by the following May was promoted to secretary- general. Then, in January 1956, Wang was again promoted, this time to a vice-chairmanship under Chairman Li Fu-ch’un, one of Peking’s top economic specialists. Although there have been numerous changes within the commission, Wang has retained his vice-chairmanship and as of 1965 had been a vice-chairman longer than any other man. (He is, however, politically outranked as a vice-chairman by several top Party figures, including Politburo members Li Hsien-nien and T'an Chen-lin.)
In 1959 and 1960, Wang went abroad on two economic missions. In August-September 1959 he accompanied Party leader Hsi Chung-hsun to the USSR to attend an exhibition of economic achievements and from there journeyed to Brno, Czechoslovakia, for an international fair. In May 1960 Wang joined Chou En-lai in North Vietnam for official talks with Vietnamese leaders, no agreements were announced, but Wang’s presence in Hanoi suggested that economic cooperation had been a major point for discussion. Wang’s participation in international affairs seems to have centered on Vietnam because in January 1961 he again participated in talks with the Vietnamese. On this occasion in Peking the talks led to the conclusion of agreements regarding Chinese loans and the supply of various commodities by China to North Vietnam. Just prior to this agreement, Wang received another important assignment in the State Council when he was named (December 1960) as a deputy director of the Agricultural and Forestry Office, the organization which oversees the work of several ministries and bureaus. He continues to hold this position. Even before Wang received this appointment in agricultural affairs, it was already evident that he was specializing in this field of work.
Politics
In September 1964 Wang was elected as a deputy from Shantung to the Third NPC, which held its first session in December 1964-January 1965. In March and April 1965 he spent a month in Africa as a member of an NPC delegation led by Liu Ning-i, an NPC Vice-Chairman and a Party Central Committee member. Wang was the only member of the delegation specializing in economic work. The group visited Guinea, Mali, the Central African Republic, the Congo (Brazzaville), and Ghana. Although Wang is infrequently mentioned in the press, his stature can be gauged in part from the importance of the positions he holds in the government hierarchy and from the frequency of his contributions to important newspapers and journals.
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
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1949
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January, 1956
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1964