Wang Rongping

Wang was born in Gaoyou, Jiangsu, in May 1960. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1984 and entered the workforce in July 1982. He studied agronomy at Jiangsu Agricultural College from 1979 to 1982, and later pursued further studies at Yangzhou Normal College and Fudan University, where he obtained a master's degree in economics. After graduation, Wang worked at Jiangsu Agricultural College as a political instructor, secretary of the Party Committee Office, and later as deputy secretary and then secretary of the Communist Youth League committee. From 1989, he served as deputy secretary and subsequently secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee in Yangzhou.^[3]

In the 1990s, Wang held local leadership positions, including deputy Party secretary of Jiangyan, and deputy Party secretary and executive vice mayor of Yizheng, later becoming mayor. In 2001, he became a standing committee member of the Yangzhou Municipal Committee of the CCP, serving as secretary-general and later as vice mayor, before being promoted to executive vice mayor and CCP Deputy Committee Secretary of the city.^[4][5]

In May 2011, Wang was appointed Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government.^[6] He moved to Yancheng in 2014, where he served successively as deputy CCP committee secretary, acting mayor, mayor, and later CCP committee secretary.^[7] In February 2017, he also became chairman of the Yancheng Municipal People's Congress.^[8] In January 2018, Wang was appointed Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a position he held until January 2023. In May 2023, he was named President of the Jiangsu Rural Revitalization Research Association.^[9]

Wang was a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a member of the 13th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the CCP, and has served as a deputy to the 12th, 13th, and 14th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress. He was also a member of the 12th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the CPPCC and head of the third provincial thematic education inspection group of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee.^[10][11]