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Wang Wei, whose antecedents are unknown, is a rapidly rising youth leader who heads one of the two most important youth organizations, the All-China Youth Federation. He first came to prominence in May 1953 when he was appointed to membership on the People's Supervision Committee of the governmental organization known as the Central-South Administrative Committee (CSAC), then governing Honan, Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, and Kwangsi.
Education
He was educated locally.
Career
The work of the Supervision Committee, with broad investigative powers, came to an end in 1954 when the regional government administrations were abolished. It was also in 1953 that Wang received his first known assignment in youth affairs, serving from 1953 to 1954 as a deputy secretary of the Central-South Work Committee of the New Democratic Youth League (known after mid-1957 as the Communist Youth League). Since that time his rise in the Youth League has been steady. He served on the presidium (steering committee) for the Youth League Congress held in June-July 1953, at which time he was elected to both the Central Committee and its Standing Committee. He was re-elected to these posts at the subsequent youth congresses held in May 1957 and June 1964. In addition, he served as the head of the Organization Department (1955-1957), always an important organ of power in Communist organizations, and from 1957 has also been a member of the most important organ within the league, that is, the Secretariat, the unit in charge of the day-to-day work of the league. Since the June 1964 Congress, he has been officially listed as the third-ranking secretary, under First Secretary Hu Yao-pang and Secretary Hu K'o-shih. Wang is almost certainly younger than Hu Yao-pang and Hu K'o-shih, but by the mid-1960’s he could be regarded as immediately junior in rank to these two men. He is clearly a prime example of a rising functionary who has made his name exclusively in the post-war era.
Wang received his initial appointment in the national government in 1954 when the NPC first met, thereby ushering in the constitutional government (September 1954). He was a Honan deputy to the First NPC (1954-1959), but was changed to the Hopeh constituency for the Second NPC (1959-1964). He was again elected from Hopeh for the Third NPC, which held its first session in December 1964-January 1965, with Wang serving as a member of the Congress presidium during this session. He spoke on youth affairs before the sessions of the NPC held in February 1958 and April 1959. Apart from this work in the national legislature, however, his activities have centered almost exclusively on youth work. More particularly, he appears to be a specialist in international activities of the Chinese youth movement. Between 1955 and 1963, he led six youth delegations abroad to attend congresses of other Communist youth organizations or to make “youth friendship” visits. Five of these trips took him to Communist nations (Czechoslovakia, February 1955 and Augast 1960; North Vietnam, October 1956; Hungary and Poland, September-October 1958 and North Korea, November 1963).
His visit to Czechoslovakia in 1960 was for the purpose of attending meetings of the Communist-dominated International Union of Students, as was another trip (to Iraq in September-October 1960). Wang made still another visit to a Communist nation in February 1960 when he accompanied Liu Ch'ang-sheng to Moscow for the celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance, the cornerstone of Chinese Communist foreign policy during the first decade of the PRC. The association with Liu Ch’ang-sheng, a Central Committee member, suggests that Wang is beginning to play an increasingly important part in international liaison work. Liu has long been one of the key Party officials engaged in international liaison between the CCP and other Communist parties and Communist-front organizations. Wang was scheduled to have made still another trip in January 1963 when he left Peking leading a youth group destined for the Eighth Congress of the Democratic Youth League of Japan. However, the Chinese youth group was denied entry into Japan by the Japanese authorities.
Although Wang made a late entry into the ranks of the All-China Youth Federation, by January 1965 he was heading the organization, second only to the Youth League in importance. From 1958 to 1962 he served as a member of the Federation's National Committee but was dropped from the organization when the Fourth National Committee was formed in April 1962. Perhaps there were plans that did not eventuate to reassign Wang to other work at this time. However, when the higher echelons of the Federation were restafFed in January 1965, he was brought back into the organization to replace Liu Hsi-yuan as the Federation chairman.
Politics
Although Wang's specialty seems to be international youth affairs, he has also been involved in some of the domestic activities of Chinese youths. For example, he served as a member of the presidium for two national conferences of “youth activists in building socialism”（September 1955 and November-December 1958) and in May 1964 he took part in celebrations marking the 45th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. He has been an occasional contributor to the Communist press; an example appeared in the June 5, 1960, issue of the JMJP, an article dealing with the education of Young Pioneers in Communist schools.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
Career
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1953 - 1954
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1954 - 1959
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1965