Wang Liping

Wang Liping (; born March 1940 – November 25, 2021) was a Chinese politician and academic who served as Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and later as Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. A longtime member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he was also a lecturer in higher education before entering senior municipal leadership.

Biography

Wang Liping was born in March 1940 in Anyue County, Sichuan, China. He enrolled in the Department of Mathematics at Heilongjiang University in July 1961 and graduated in August 1965. Shortly after graduation, he remained at the university as a political instructor. During this period, he also participated in grassroots political work in Suibin County, Heilongjiang, as part of the Socialist Education Movement. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1966.

During the Cultural Revolution, Wang was placed under investigation from 1967 to 1969. He subsequently took part in Party rectification work in rural areas of Heilongjiang Province. In 1971, he undertook further study and work at Beijing Radio Factory No. 3, before returning to Heilongjiang University later that year, where he served as deputy director and academic secretary of the Department of Mathematics.

In 1978, Wang moved to Shanghai and began teaching at the Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering. From 1979 onward, he worked at Shanghai University of Technology, where he served as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and later held several administrative posts, including deputy director of the department, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office, director of the Party Committee Office, and deputy secretary of the university's Party committee.

Wang entered municipal politics in 1985 as Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Working Party Committee. In 1986, he was appointed Secretary-General of the CCP Shanghai Municipal Committee and later became a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. From 1992 to 1998, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CCP and concurrently as Secretary of the Shanghai Political and Legal Affairs Commission.

In 1998, Wang was appointed Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Secretary of its Party leadership group, positions he held until February 2003. He was a delegate to the 16th National Congress of the CCP, a member of the 9th National Committee of the CPPCC, and a standing member of the 10th National Committee of the CPPCC. He also served as a member of the 11th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress.

Wang Liping died of illness on November 25, 2021, at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, at the age of 82.