Wang Qishan

Wang Qishan at a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner in Beijing, April 8, 2010.

Wang Qishan ( Chinese  王岐山 , Pinyin Wáng Qíshān ; * July 1948 in Tianzhen ( Shanxi Province )) is a Chinese communist politician and has been Vice President of the PRC since March 2018.

Career

After serving as director of China Construction Bank from 1994 to 1997 and in Guangdong and Hainan Provinces , Wang Qishan was mayor of Beijing City from April 2003 to November 2007 . Wang has been a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China since 2007 and a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China as Vice Prime Minister since 2008 . Since November 2012 he has been a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo . Since 2012, he has also been the secretary (head) of the CCP Central Disciplinary Commission . In October 2017 he had to give up both positions due to old age.

In March 2018 he was elected Vice President of the PRC.

Web links

Commons : Wang Qishan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• China Vitae: Wang Qishan (English)
• 王岐山 Wang Qishan - expert for flies and bed rugs (www.ludaofu.de)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bernhard Zand: New Vice President in China. The corruption guard. In: Spiegel online . March 18, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wang is the family name here, Qishan is the first name.