Background
Wang Qishan was born on July 19, 1948, in Qingdao, Shandong, but his ancestral hometown is considered Tianzhen, Shanxi. He was the son of an engineering professor.
Wang Qishan
Wang Qishan when he was a sent-down youth in Ya'nan.
Wang Qishan when he was a museum guide in Xi’an.
Wang Qishan, back row and first from left, with colleagues and friends.
2008
Washington DC., USA
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan smile after signing a agreement at the Treasury Department, June 18, 2008 in Washington DC. Paulson and Qishan spent the day discussing U.S.-China strategic and economic dialogue. (June 18, 2008 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2008
Beijing, China
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan attends the opening session of the 5th China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue on December 4, 2008 in Beijing, China. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson leads a U.S. delegation to China for the dialogue which will take place from December 4th to the 5th. (Source: Guang Niu/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2009
Washington, DC., USA
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd-R) Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R), Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (2nd-L) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (L) pose for a photo at the start of an economic summit on July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Delegations from both sides participated in the high level talks to discuss future bilateral cooperation on issues like economy, climate change and foreign policy. (July 26, 2009 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2009
Washington, DC., USA
President Barack Obama (R) speaks while Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (C) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (L) listen during an economic summit July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Delegations from both sides participated in the high level talks to discuss future bilateral cooperation on issues like economy, climate change and foreign policy. (July 26, 2009 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2009
Washington, DC., USA
President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (C) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (L) during an economic summit July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Delegations from both China and US sides participated in the high level talks to discuss future bilateral cooperation on issues like economy, climate change and foreign policy. (July 26, 2009 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2010
Beijing, China
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C), U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) and China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) attend a press conference during the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the Great Hall of People on May 25, 2010 in Beijing, China. Hillary Clinton called upon Beijing to back international pressure against North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship, and to seek greater stability in the region. (May 24, 2010 - Source: Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2011
Beijing, China
Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman (L) shakes hands with Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leaders compound April 20, 2011 in Beijing, China. A delegation of U.S. senators met with Chinese leaders to discuss currency and trade issues. (April 19, 2011 - Source: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2011
Washington, DC., USA
L-R) Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner participate in a family photo of the 2011 U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the Department of State May 9, 2011 in Washington, DC. The two-day joint-meeting of the dialogue, the highest-level bilateral forum to discuss issues between the two nations, was underway in Washington. (May 8, 2011 - Source: Alex Wong/Getty Images North America)
2018
Beijing, China
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan (R) and Dominican Republic's Chancellor Miguel Vargas during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound on May 1, 2018 in Beijing, China. (April 30, 2018 - Source: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2018
Beijing, China
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan (R) and Medardo Gonzalez, a Salvadoran politician, Secretary General of the ruling party of El Salvador, during their meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound on August 21, 2018 in Beijing, China. El Salvador has established diplomatic ties with China and cut ties with Taiwan. (Source: Getty Images AsiaPac)
2012
Bejing, China
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, China's President Hu Jintao, Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo pose for a photograph during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on May 4, 2012 in Bejing, China. Gary Locke, Secretary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner attended a fourth joint meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue with Chinese officials. (May 3, 2012 - Source: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2013
Beijing, China
Newly Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Yu Zhengsheng (L) talks with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) during the fifth plenary meeting of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 15, 2013 in Beijing, China. Li Keqiang was elected as China's Premier Friday at the 12th National People's Congress, the country's top legislature. (March 14, 2013 - Source: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2013
Beijing, China
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Right) and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan toast with high-ranking Chinese officials at a dinner marking the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People on September 30, 2013 in Beijing, China. On October 1, 1949, Chinese leader Mao Zedong stood at the Tiananmen Rostrum to declare the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Source: Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2016
Beijing, China
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan (R) meets Russian Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov (L) at The Great Hall Of The People on March 25, 2016 in Beijing, China. (March 24, 2016 - Source: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2008
Washington DC., USA
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan smile after signing a agreement at the Treasury Department, June 18, 2008 in Washington DC. Paulson and Qishan spent the day discussing U.S.-China strategic and economic dialogue. (June 18, 2008 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2008
Beijing, China
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan attends the opening session of the 5th China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue on December 4, 2008 in Beijing, China. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson leads a U.S. delegation to China for the dialogue which will take place from December 4th to the 5th. (Source: Guang Niu/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2009
Washington, DC., USA
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd-R) Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner (R), Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (2nd-L) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (L) pose for a photo at the start of an economic summit on July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Delegations from both sides participated in the high level talks to discuss future bilateral cooperation on issues like economy, climate change and foreign policy. (July 26, 2009 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2009
Washington, DC., USA
President Barack Obama (R) speaks while Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (C) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (L) listen during an economic summit July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Delegations from both sides participated in the high level talks to discuss future bilateral cooperation on issues like economy, climate change and foreign policy. (July 26, 2009 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2009
Washington, DC., USA
President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (C) and State Councilor Dai Bingguo (L) during an economic summit July 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Delegations from both China and US sides participated in the high level talks to discuss future bilateral cooperation on issues like economy, climate change and foreign policy. (July 26, 2009 - Source: Mark Wilson/Getty Images North America)
2010
Beijing, China
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C), U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) and China's Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) attend a press conference during the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the Great Hall of People on May 25, 2010 in Beijing, China. Hillary Clinton called upon Beijing to back international pressure against North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship, and to seek greater stability in the region. (May 24, 2010 - Source: Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2011
Beijing, China
Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman (L) shakes hands with Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leaders compound April 20, 2011 in Beijing, China. A delegation of U.S. senators met with Chinese leaders to discuss currency and trade issues. (April 19, 2011 - Source: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2011
Washington, DC., USA
L-R) Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner participate in a family photo of the 2011 U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the Department of State May 9, 2011 in Washington, DC. The two-day joint-meeting of the dialogue, the highest-level bilateral forum to discuss issues between the two nations, was underway in Washington. (May 8, 2011 - Source: Alex Wong/Getty Images North America)
2012
Bejing, China
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, China's President Hu Jintao, Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo pose for a photograph during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on May 4, 2012 in Bejing, China. Gary Locke, Secretary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner attended a fourth joint meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue with Chinese officials. (May 3, 2012 - Source: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2013
Beijing, China
Newly Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Yu Zhengsheng (L) talks with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (R) during the fifth plenary meeting of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 15, 2013 in Beijing, China. Li Keqiang was elected as China's Premier Friday at the 12th National People's Congress, the country's top legislature. (March 14, 2013 - Source: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2013
Beijing, China
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Right) and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan toast with high-ranking Chinese officials at a dinner marking the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People on September 30, 2013 in Beijing, China. On October 1, 1949, Chinese leader Mao Zedong stood at the Tiananmen Rostrum to declare the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Source: Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2016
Beijing, China
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan (R) meets Russian Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov (L) at The Great Hall Of The People on March 25, 2016 in Beijing, China. (March 24, 2016 - Source: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2018
Beijing, China
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan (R) and Dominican Republic's Chancellor Miguel Vargas during a meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound on May 1, 2018 in Beijing, China. (April 30, 2018 - Source: Pool/Getty Images AsiaPac)
2018
Beijing, China
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan (R) and Medardo Gonzalez, a Salvadoran politician, Secretary General of the ruling party of El Salvador, during their meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound on August 21, 2018 in Beijing, China. El Salvador has established diplomatic ties with China and cut ties with Taiwan. (Source: Getty Images AsiaPac)
Wang Qishan
Wang Qishan
Wang Qishan when he was a sent-down youth in Ya'nan.
Wang Qishan when he was a museum guide in Xi’an.
Wang Qishan, back row and first from left, with colleagues and friends.
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王 岐山
Wang Qishan was born on July 19, 1948, in Qingdao, Shandong, but his ancestral hometown is considered Tianzhen, Shanxi. He was the son of an engineering professor.
After graduating high school, Wang worked as a sent-down youth in the countryside, performing manual labour with peasants on a commune in the revolutionary heartland of Yan'an. In 1973, Wang was admitted as a "Worker-Peasant-Soldier student" at Northwest University in Xi'an, where he studied history and graduated in 1976.
As a young man, he was one of the “educated youth” who was sent to a rural commune near Yan’an, Shaanxi province, where he performed manual labour for three years (1969–71) during the height of the Cultural Revolution. While there he met and became friends with future Chinese president Xi Jinping.
Wang subsequently worked for several years in a variety of research jobs. He joined the CCP in 1983. In 1988 he became involved in the country’s financial sector, first at the Rural Trust and Investment Corp. of China. He quickly moved to the People’s Construction Bank (now China Construction Bank; CCB). He rose through the ranks of leadership there—with a brief hiatus in 1993–94, when he was at the People’s Bank of China—and he led the CCB as its secretary in 1994–97.
From 1997 Wang worked in provincial government, serving first in Guangdong and then in Hainan. He became acting mayor of Beijing in 2003 and mayor a year later. During his tenure in the latter post (2004–07), he spearheaded the city’s preparations for the highly successful 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Concurrent with his provincial and mayoral postings, Wang’s star was rising in the CCP’s national hierarchy. Beginning as an alternate member of the party’s Central Committee in 1997, he rose in 2002 to become a full member of the committee; he was named a member of the powerful Political Bureau (Politburo) in 2007 and also a vice-premier in 2008. One of his principal Politburo duties at that time was serving as China’s chief economic negotiator with the United States.
After Xi Jinping assumed power in China in 2012, he initiated a major campaign against government corruption, calling on Wang to head the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Wang was also named to the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, the country’s top ruling body. From that position of power, Wang’s CCDI began investigating and prosecuting tens of thousands of major and minor government officials for various forms of misconduct and corruption. One prominent case in 2013 led to the conviction of former Chongqing mayor Bo Xilai on a variety of charges, including complicity in an attempted cover-up of his wife’s murder of a British businessman. Wang subsequently pursued Zhou Yongkang, the former head of China’s vast internal security agency, who had a close affiliation with Bo. In 2015 Zhou, who was the highest-ranking official ever to face charges, was found guilty of several crimes and was sentenced to life in prison.
Wang grew increasingly powerful and was seen as a key member of Xi’s inner circle. In 2017, after reaching the CCP’s retirement age, he stepped down from both the CCDI and the Politburo Standing Committee. However, in early 2018 he was named a deputy of the National People’s Congress, and shortly thereafter he became vice president of China.
Wang is one of the leading figures behind China's foreign affairs. Between 2012 and 2017, Wang had served as the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party's anti-corruption body, and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's highest decision making body. He was instrumental in carrying out General Secretary Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign since 2013.
Wang was named as one of the most influential people in the world in the 2009 Time 100 list. He became one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2017.
Wang complained that some cadres “don’t believe in Marxism-Leninism but believe in ghosts and gods.”
Quotations:
"Dangers of laziness, inability to properly act, remoteness from the people and passive corruption hang even more acutely in front of the party, if allowed to continue then it will weaken the party's ability to govern and shake the party's basis for governing."
"In setting and adjusting rules, we must learn from the essence of traditional Chinese culture and move with the times in managing the party in accordance with new situations and new missions."
Wang is "decisive and inquisitive" and "an avid historian, enjoys philosophical debates and has a wicked sense of humor".
Physical Characteristics:
Hair color - black
Eyes color - black
Wang is a fan of the American television show House of Cards, and frequently alluded to the show during anti-corruption conferences; Wang said he was especially fascinated by the role of the party whip. He also said he watched some Korean dramas. Wang said, "Korea dramas are ahead of us, yet the core and soul of Korean dramas (represents) an advancement from (art forms seen) in traditional Chinese culture."
Wang is married to Yao Mingshan, daughter of former vice-premier Yao Yilin; Wang does not have children. He is sometimes considered a "princeling" through his marriage.
(born 15 June 1953)
He is a Chinese politician serving as general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), president of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC).
