Wu Bangguo

Wu Bangguo
吴邦国
8th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 15 March 2003 – 14 March 2013
Deputy	Wang Zhaoguo
Leader	Hu Jintao
Preceded by	Li Peng
Succeeded by	Zhang Dejiang
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
In office March 1995 – March 2003
Premier	Li Peng Zhu Rongji
Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai
In office 1991–1994
Deputy	Huang Ju (Mayor)
Preceded by	Zhu Rongji
Succeeded by	Huang Ju
Personal details
Born	(1941-07-12) 12 July 1941 (age 82)[citation needed] Guizhou, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Spouse	Zhang Ruizhen
Children	1 son, 1 daughter
Alma mater	Tsinghua University
Occupation	Electronics engineer

Wu Bangguo (born 12^{[citation needed]} July 1941) is a Chinese retired politician. Wu served as the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012, and as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2013.

Wu is an electrical engineer by profession, and rose to political prominence during his work in Shanghai. During the early 1980s, he was in charge of science and technology related work in Shanghai, where he worked with Jiang Zemin, then mayor and later Communist Party secretary of the city, leading Wu to be affiliated with Jiang's political faction. He became Shanghai's party secretary in 1991, succeeding Zhu Rongji, leading him to assume a seat in the CCP Politburo in 1992.

He became the country's third-ranking Vice Premier of the State Council in 1995, with a portfolio including state-owned enterprises and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. He jointed the Politburo Standing Committee in 2002, and was appointed as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 2003. Serving as one of the highest-ranking officials under Party general secretary Hu Jintao, Wu is generally regarded to have taken more conservative positions towards reforms during his tenure. He stepped down from the Politburo Standing Committee in 2012, and was succeeded by Zhang Dejiang as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 2013.