Wang Rongbing

Wang Rongbing (; born November 1943) is a Chinese politician and engineer who served as mayor of Nanjing and later as vice governor of Jiangsu. He was also vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Wang was a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress.

Biography

Wang was born in November 1943 in Wujiang County, Jiangsu. In 1961, he entered the Department of Radio Communications at the Nanjing Aeronautical Institute, now known as the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he specialized in radio communications engineering. After graduating in 1966, he remained at the institute before being assigned to work at the Nanjing Radio Factory.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Wang held a number of technical and managerial positions at the Nanjing Radio Factory. He successively served as workshop supervisor, workshop director, director of the quality management office, and director of the enterprise management office. In 1983, he became deputy factory director and was recognized as an engineer. Later that year, he was appointed general manager of the Nanjing Radio Company.

Wang entered municipal politics in November 1984, when he was appointed a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of Nanjing and vice mayor of the city. In September 1989, he became deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and acting mayor of Nanjing. In January 1990, he was formally appointed mayor of Nanjing.

During his tenure as mayor, Wang oversaw aspects of urban industrial development and municipal administration during a period of rapid economic reform in China. In April 1993, he was promoted to vice governor of Jiangsu and became a member of the党组 (party leadership group) of the provincial government.

Wang was elected as a delegate to the 8th National People's Congress. He later also served as vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.