Wang Chaowen
王朝文
Chairperson of the National People's Congress Ethnic Affairs Committee
In office
March 1993  March 2003
Preceded byNgapoi Ngawang Jigme
Succeeded byDoje Cering
Chairman of Guizhou Provincial People's Congress
In office
January 1994  January 1998
Preceded byLiu Zhengwei
Succeeded byLiu Fangren
Governor of Guizhou
In office
April 1983  January 1993
Party SecretaryChi Biqing
Zhu Houze
Hu Jintao
Liu Zhengwei
Preceded bySu Gang
Succeeded byChen Shineng
Personal details
BornOctober 1930 (age 93)
Huangping County, Guizhou, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party

Wang Chaowen (Chinese: 王朝文; pinyin: Wáng Cháowén; born October 1930) is a Chinese politician of Miao ethnicity who served as governor of Guizhou from 1983 to 1993 and chairman of Guizhou Provincial People's Congress from 1994 to 1998.

He was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th and 9th National People's Congress.

Biography

Wang was born in Huangping County, Guizhou, in October 1930. He entered the workforce in December 1949, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1951. He was first party secretary of Shibing County in September 1956, and held that office until January 1960. He served as deputy secretary of Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of China in February 1960, and was promoted to the secretary position in June 1973. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, he was removed from office and effectively sidelined, but soon reinstated in December 1969. In September 1977, he was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Guizhou Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. In January 1980, he became vice governor of Guizhou, rising to governor in April 1983.[1] He also served as deputy party secretary from March 1985 to November 1993. In January 1994, he became chairman of Guizhou Provincial People's Congress, a post he kept until January 1998. In March 1998, he took office as chairperson of the National People's Congress Ethnic Affairs Committee, serving in the post until his retirement in March 2003.[2][3]

References

  1. Chinese Academy of Governance, ed. (2000). 中华人民共和国政府机构五十年 [Fifty Years of Government Agencies of the People's Republic of China] (in Chinese). Beijing: Party Building Books Publishing House. p. 194. ISBN 7-80098-406-0.
  2. Han Taihua (韩泰华), ed. (1999). 新中国50年 [50 Years of New China] (in Chinese). Beijing: Red Flag Publishing House. p. 897. ISBN 7-5051-0423-3.
  3. Editorial Committee, ed. (1999). 中华人民共和国年鉴 1998 [Yearbook of the People's Republic of China 1998] (in Chinese). Beijing: China Yearbook Society. p. 41. ISBN 7-80056-903-9.
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