Wang Jianhua (politician, born 1952)

Wang Jianhua (Chinese: 王建华; born July 1952) is a former Chinese politician from Shandong province. He held several municipal and provincial leadership positions in Jiangsu, including Party Secretary of Lianyungang and Party Secretary of Jiangning District, Nanjing. He later served as Party Secretary of the Jiangsu Bank. In 2017, Wang came under investigation for corruption, and in 2019 he was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for bribery.^[1]

Wang was born in Laiyang, Shandong in July 1952. He began working in November 1970 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1974. In his early career, he worked as a coal miner in Nanjing, then served in various administrative roles in the Nanjing Municipal Statistics Bureau, eventually becoming director of the city's Input-Output Office.^[2][3]

In December 1988, Wang was appointed director of the General Office of the Nanjing Municipal Planning Commission. In August 1993, he became deputy director and deputy Party secretary of the commission, later also serving as director of the Port Authority.^[4] In December 1996, he was appointed deputy Party secretary and acting county magistrate of Jiangning County, and soon became county magistrate.^[5] Two years later, he became Party secretary of Jiangning County and concurrently chairman of the county people's congress standing committee.^[6]

Following the county's administrative reorganization, Wang served as Party secretary of Jiangning District from 2001 to 2005, and concurrently as a member of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party standing committee. In June 2005, he was promoted to Party secretary of Lianyungang, and in January 2008 he also became chairman of the Lianyungang Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee. In September 2011, he was appointed deputy head of the Jiangsu Coastal Development Leading Group and Party secretary of Jiangsu Bank. He retired in April 2014.^[7]

On 15 February 2017, the Jiangsu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Wang Jianhua was under investigation for “serious violations of discipline.” In August 2017, the Supreme People's Procuratorate authorized his arrest on charges of bribery. The following month, the provincial Party committee confirmed his expulsion from the CCP and the cancellation of his retirement benefits.^[2][6][8]

In May 2018, prosecutors in Nantong indicted Wang on bribery charges, alleging that between 1993 and 2017, he abused his positions in Nanjing, Jiangning, Lianyungang, and Jiangsu Bank to seek benefits for others in exchange for bribes, either directly or through associates.^[9] On 30 July 2019, the Nantong Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang to thirteen years in prison and fined him 2.5 million yuan.^[10]