Wang Hui (politician, born 1968)

Wang Hui (Chinese: 王晖; born July 1968) is a Chinese politician who served as vice minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development from 2023 to 2024. He previously held leadership positions in Jiangsu province, including as party secretary of Nantong.^[1]

Wang was born in July 1968 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. He studied history at Xuzhou Normal University (1987–1991), before earning a master's degree in Chinese philosophy at Nanjing University (1991–1994). He later obtained a doctorate in philosophy at Nanjing University while working.^[2]

From 1994 to 1997, Wang worked as a journalist for Nanjing Daily and Jinling Evening News. He subsequently entered government service, first in the Jiangsu Provincial Economic Restructuring Commission.^[3] Between 1997 and 2000, he pursued his doctoral studies and later served as deputy director of the Provincial Economic Reform Office's Research Center. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia (2001–2002).^[4]

In 2003, Wang was appointed deputy director of the Comprehensive Research Division of the Provincial Economic Reform Office, and later served as director of the Jiangsu Institute of Urban Development. From 2006 to 2009, he headed the Rural Construction Office of the Jiangsu Department of Construction. In 2009, he became a vice mayor of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, while serving as deputy leader of Jiangsu’s aid-Tibet cadres.^[4]

Between 2012 and 2015, Wang was executive vice mayor of Lhasa and deputy director of the Jiangsu Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. In September 2015, he became general manager and deputy party secretary of Jiangsu Guoxin Asset Management Group, later rising to chairman in 2017.^[5] In December 2019, Wang was appointed deputy party secretary of Nantong and became mayor of Nantong. He was elevated to party secretary in July 2021 and concurrently served as chairman of the Nantong Municipal People’s Congress (2022–2023).^[6]

In January 2023, Wang was named vice governor of Jiangsu.^[7] In June 2023, he was appointed vice minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, a post he held until December 2024.^[8] Wang has been a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 14th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He also served as a delegate to the 13th and 14th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress and as a member of the 13th Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission.^[9]