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Wan Wenhua

Chinese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16336346
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Wan Wenhua (Chinese: 万闻华; born July 1974) is a Chinese politician currently serving as the Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary and Mayor of Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. She holds a doctorate in management and has been a member of the Chinese Communist Party since November 1994.

Career

Wan Wenhua was born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province, in July 1974. She began her political career in June 1996. From 1996 to 2016, she served in various positions within the Communist Youth League of Jiangsu, including as officer of the Publicity Department, assistant director of the General Office, deputy director of the Rights Protection Department, Director of its United Front Work Department, and eventually as Deputy Secretary and then Secretary of the provincial Youth League.

In June 2016, Wan was appointed Deputy Party Secretary of Lianyungang City, as well as head of the Organization Department, President of the Party School, and Secretary of the Haizhou District Committee. She continued to serve as Deputy Party Secretary of Lianyungang until July 2021.

In July 2021, she became Deputy Party Secretary and Party Leadership Group Secretary of the Taizhou Municipal Government. The following month, she assumed the role of Acting Mayor. In February 2022, she was officially appointed Mayor of Taizhou, Jiangsu Province.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wan Wenhua” as chinese politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1994, 1996, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Wenhua, Chinese and politician can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as chinese politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16336346. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1994, 1996 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Wan Wenhua” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.