Wan Gang

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Wan Gang
万钢
Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office 13 March 2008 – 10 March 2023
Chairman	Jia Qinglin Yu Zhengsheng Wang Yang
Minister of Science and Technology
In office 27 April 2007 – 19 March 2018
Premier	Wen Jiabao Li Keqiang
Preceded by	Xu Guanhua
Succeeded by	Wang Zhigang
Chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party
In office 21 December 2007 – 14 December 2022
Preceded by	Luo Haocai
Succeeded by	Jiang Zuojun
Personal details
Born	August 1952 (age 71) Shanghai, China
Political party	China Zhi Gong Party
Alma mater	Northeast Forestry University Tongji University Clausthal University of Technology

Wan Gang (Chinese: 万钢; pinyin: Wàn Gāng, born August 1952) is a Chinese expert on automobiles and retired politician, who served as the minister of science and technology from 2007 to 2018. The chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party, Wan was one of the few non-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ministers in China's State Council.

A graduate of the Northeast Forestry University, Wan was a visiting scholar to the Clausthal University of Technology in Germany from 1985 to 1991. He started working for Audi in 1991, where he contributed to research and development efforts. After proposing for China to focus on new car technologies using clean fuel in 2000, he was invited by the Chinese government to return to China to head the electric automobile projects in the 863 Program. He became the president of Tongji University in 2002, serving there until 2007.

In 2007, he was appointed as the minister of science and technology. He also became the chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party later that year, and was appointed as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2008. As minister, Wan promoted the development of electric vehicles, and has been nicknamed the "father of China’s electric car industry". He retired as minister in 2018, and later stepped down as CPPCC vice chairman in 2023.