Background
Wu was born in Gaochun County, Jiangsu province.
吴政隆
politician Secretary of Taiyuan
Wu was born in Gaochun County, Jiangsu province.
In 2014, Chen Chuanping was abruptly removed from office as party chief of Taiyuan as part of a corruption probe. Wu was "parachuted" in as the new party chief of Taiyuan in August 2014. He also earned an ex officio seat on the provincial party standing committee.
Wu was a delegate to the 11th National People"s Congress, elected in 2008.
He graduated in 1984 from the Taiyuan Mechanical College (later renamed North University of China), where he studied machinery and equipment manufacturing, and worked in the military supply and industry ministry, before being transferred to the National Planning Commission to work as a political secretary. In 1999 he became deputy secretary-general of the Chongqing municipal government shortly after it became a direct-controlled municipality. He was then named deputy governor of Wanzhou District, then governor, then the party chief
In May 2013 he was named secretary-general of the party committee, and a member of the party standing committee. Wu was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
