Wang Huning

Chinese political theorist and politician (born 1955)

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Wang (王).

Wang Huning

王沪宁

Wang in 2024

10th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Incumbent

Assumed office
10 March 2023
Vice Chairpersons|

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* Hu Chunhua
* Shen Yueyue
* Wang Yong
* Zhou Qiang
* Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai
* Edmund Ho
* Leung Chun-ying
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Secretary-General| Wang Dongfeng
Preceded by| Wang Yang
First-ranked Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
In office
25 October 2017 – 23 October 2022
General Secretary| Xi Jinping
Preceded by| Liu Yunshan
Succeeded by| Cai Qi
Director of the Central Policy Research Office
In office
October 2002 – October 2020
Deputy| He Yiting
Zheng Xinli
General Secretary| Jiang Zemin
Hu Jintao
Xi Jinping
Preceded by| Teng Wensheng
Succeeded by| Jiang Jinquan

Other office held

Director of the Office of the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission

Incumbent

Assumed office
22 January 2014
Deputy| Mu Hong
Pan Shengzhou
Chen Yixin
Preceded by| Office established
Chairman of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization
In office
17 November 2017 – October 2022
Deputy| Sun Chunlan
Huang Kunming
Preceded by| Liu Yunshan
Succeeded by| Cai Qi
Personal details
Born|  (1955-10-06) 6 October 1955 (age 69)
Shanghai, China
Political party| Chinese Communist Party (1984–present)
Spouse|

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*     * Zhou Qi
* Xiao Jialing[1]

Children| 1 son
Alma mater| Fudan University
East China Normal University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese| 王沪宁
Traditional Chinese| 王滬寧
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Wáng Hùníng
IPA| [wǎŋ xû.nǐŋ]

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Wang Huning (Chinese: 王沪宁; pinyin: Wáng Hùníng; born 6 October 1955) is a Chinese political theorist and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is currently the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He has been a leading ideologist in the country since the 1980s. He has been a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body since 2017, and is its fourth-ranking member since 2022.

A former academic, Wang was a professor of international politics and dean of the law school at Fudan University. During this time, he gained attention due to his belief in "neoconservatism", which held that a strong leadership was needed for China's stability and political reforms. He started to work for the CCP leadership in 1995 as a director of a research team at the CCP's Central Policy Research Office (CPRO). He became the CPRO's deputy director in 1998, and was promoted to the party's Central Committee and director of the office in 2002, remaining the latter until 2020, the longest tenure in the office. He assisted CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin, and was believed to be instrumental in developing Jiang's signature political theory, the Three Represents. He later became a close confidant of CCP general secretary Hu Jintao, believed to be key to developing his primary theory, Scientific Outlook on Development, and became a secretary of the CCP secretariat in 2007.

Wang became a member of the CCP Politburo in 2012, and is believed to have developed close relations with CCP general secretary Xi Jinping, becoming one of his closer advisors. In 2017, he was promoted to the 5th-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee and the first-ranking secretary of the CCP Secretariat. He has also chaired leading commissions on ideology and reforms and is believed to have been instrumental in developing key concepts under Xi, including Xi Jinping Thought, Chinese-style modernization, the Chinese Dream and the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2022, he was succeeded by Cai Qi as the first secretary, and became the 4th-ranking member of the PSC. He became the CPPCC chairman in March 2023, succeeding Wang Yang.

Widely regarded as the "Grey Eminence" of the CCP, Wang is believed to be the chief ideologue of the Communist Party and principal architect behind the official political ideologies of three CCP general secretaries since the 1990s. He has held significant influence over policy and decision-making of all three paramount leaders, an exceptionally rare feat in Chinese politics. Wang believes that a strong, centralized state is needed in China to resist foreign influence, an idea that has been influential under Xi Jinping.

## Early life

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Wang Was born on 6 October 1955 in Nanshi, Shanghai.[2] He traces his heritage to Ye County, Shandong province, though he never lived in Shandong. Wang's name, "Huning (沪宁)", literally means "the peace (宁) of Shanghai (沪)", a typical name given by his Red Army parents, who fought in the Shanghai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War and remained in the city thereafter. As a military official, Wang Huning's father was implicated during the anti–Peng Dehuai campaign launched by Mao Zedong and suffered persecution during the Cultural Revolution. His mother was hospitalized several times due to illness after 1965, requiring Wang and his two older brothers had to look after her.[3] During his youth, Wang went to the Shanghai Yongqiang Middle School, where he obtained books that were forbidden during that era from his teachers. After the school opened a mechanic class, Wang participated in it as an apprentice worker. He graduated from this junior high school in 1972.[4]

After Nixon's visit to China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) found itself lacking diplomats familiar with foreign languages. Following an order by the CCP Central Committee, the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee established the Foreign Language Training Class in the Fudan University, the Shanghai Normal University[note 1] and the Shanghai International Studies College, with each university being required to enroll 200 students in the first enrollment year of 1977. Wang was recommended to enter Shanghai Normal University May 7 Cadre School's Foreign Language Training Class to study French with 24 other classmates.[note 2][4][5] The Training Class was first located in Dafeng County, Jiangsu Province, where Wang began his study in October 1972. The May 7 Cadre School later moved to Fengxian, Shanghai in April 1973.[5]

After his graduation in February 1977,[note 3] he became a cadre at the Shanghai Publishing Bureau. In 1978, he participated in the Graduate Entrance Examination and was admitted as a postgraduate student in the Department of International Politics of Fudan University. His mentor was Chen Qiren, who later recalled Wang was late during the interview, but he gave Wang a pass due to his excellence in the primary exam.[6] Wang's Master dissertation was "From Bodin to Maritain: A review on the development of the Western sovereignty theory". The thesis was highly approved by the defense committee. He received a Master of Laws degree[note 4] in 1981 and stayed in Fudan as an instructor at the Political Science Teaching and Research Department.[7] During this time, he was highly appreciated by Wang Bangzuo, then director of the Department.[8] They were usually referred to as "the two Wang" by their counterparts.[9]

## Academic career

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In April 1984, Wang joined the Party. In 1985 at age 29, without first needing to serve as lecturer, Wang was promoted to associate professor in international politics, making him China's youngest associate professor at the time.[7] During this time he published widely in academic journals, newspapers and magazines, which were read by the intellectual elite.[4] By the end of 1985, Wang had published nearly 80 articles and compiled 700,000 words of materials. He was also selected as a special policy researcher by Organization Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and was the main contributor to the book "Introduction to Political Science", a key social sciences project during the sixth five-year plan.[10]

In 1988, Wang was a visiting scholar in the United States for six months, spending the first three months at the University of Iowa, three weeks at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting many other universities. During his time in the United States, Wang visited over 30 cities and close to 20 universities,[11] and later wrote about his experiences in his book America Against America.[12] After returning to China, Wang served as director of Fudan University's Department of International Politics from 1989 to 1994, and as dean of the law school in 1994–95.[2]

Wang was a well-known young scholar in academic circles since the 1980s. He wrote columns and essays for numerous party-sanctioned publications and was featured on the cover of current affairs magazines such as Banyuetan (半月谈), attracting the attention of Shanghai's top political leaders,[4] and he was known by Jiang Zemin, then CCP secretary of Shanghai.[13] His achievements led to him participating in the drafting of theoretical documents for the CCP since the 13th CCP National Congress. In 1993, Wang led the Fudan student debate team to participate in a Chinese-language international college debate competition in Singapore. The team won the championship between 1988 and 1993, greatly enhancing Wang's reputation.[4]

On 12 February 1993, Wang established the Fudan University Development Research Institute. During this time, Wang participated in "bimontly seminars" organized first by Shanghai mayor Jiang Zemin. The Development Research Institute submitted various reports, including on the 1989 revolutions in the Eastern Bloc and the political status of Taiwan. Wang was one of the two chief planners, of the China Development Report published by the Development Research Institute at the end of 1993; he was also the chief writer of its political section.[10] Wang's work in the 1990s expressed the position that China should reclaim a sense of Chinese cultural and intellectual autonomy.[14]: 125 This drew increased attention from political leaders in the central government.[14]: 125–126

## Political career

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In the summer of 1994, he participated in the drafting of the documents for the fourth plenary session of the 14th Central Committee.[15] From 1995, Wang was referred to work for the party leadership in Beijing on recommendation from top Shanghai politicians Zeng Qinghong and Wu Bangguo, both of whom maintained close relationships with now-party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.[16] He was summoned by Jiang to head the political research team at the Central Policy Research Office (CPRO),[13] and was promoted in April 1998 to deputy director of the CPRO, ultimately being promoted to director in 2002.[13][17] He was regarded as one of the major sources of brainpower Jiang Zemin drew from[18][19] and accompanied Jiang on foreign visits since 1998 as a special assistant.[16] He was also part of a team that formulated Jiang's "Three Represents" that was written into the CCP constitution in 2002.[20]

In 2002, he became a member of the CCP's Central Committee.[16] In November 2007, Wang was admitted to the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party. He began accompanying General Secretary Hu Jintao on foreign trips[19] and was considered one of Hu's three most influential advisors, along with Ling Jihua and Chen Shiju.[16] During this time, he also started working together with Xi Jinping; Wang was a member of a committee overseeing "party building", which Xi started chairing in 2007.[21] Wang led the team that wrote Hu's final report at the 18th CCP National Congress.[13] According to Radio Free Asia, Wang proposed twice to the central government about stepping down as the CPRO Director after becoming a secretary of the Secretariat, but continued in the role as the CCP Organization Department could not find anyone to succeed him.[22]

On 14 May 2017, Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin attended the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Behind them were Wang, Li Zhanshu and He Lifeng.

He was promoted to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012 after the Congress, becoming the first director of the CPRO to hold a seat on the elite ruling council. He also stepped down from the CCP Secretariat.[16] Following the ascension of Xi Jinping to the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2012, Wang nurtured a close relationship with Xi, again emerging as one of the central members of Xi's entourage on international trips and seen to be one of Xi's closest advisors.[23][24] In 22 January 2014, Wang was appointed as the director of the Office of the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (CCDR), a new CCP body.[25]

### First-ranked Secretary of the Secretariat (2017–2022)

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Wang was chosen to be the 5th-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body, on 25 October 2017, becoming one of the few members of the body without prior ministerial or provincial experience.[26] He returned to the Secretariat to become its first-ranking secretary.[27] He was also appointed as a deputy leader of the CCDR.[25] Wang has frequently accompanied Xi in his trips, suggesting involvement in China's diplomacy.[28][29] Along with other leading cadre, Wang presided over the development of Xuexi Qiangguo, an app designed to teach Xi Jinping Thought.[30]: 29 After the CCP launched the "not forgetting the original intent and remembering the mission" (不忘初心、牢记使命) educational campaign in May 2019, Wang was appointed as the head of the Central Leading Group.[31]

In January 2020, Wang was appointed as deputy leader of the Central Leading Group for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic, with premier Li Keqiang as the leader.[32] He also accompanied Xi to visiting Wuhan in March.[33] He was succeeded by Jiang Jinquan as the director of CPRO in 2020.[34] In 2020, he was one of the drafters of the outline of the fourteenth five-year plan.[35] He played a key role in drafting the "third historical resolution" in November 2021, which further consolidated Xi's power.[28] Reuters reported on 3 March 2023, citing sources, that Wang held a meeting in late October with top medical experts, senior officials and people from the propaganda apparatus, asking them how many deaths an abandonment of zero-COVID controls would cause in a worst-case scenario and requesting them to devise roadmaps on reopening policies in different paces.[36]

### Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (2023–)

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Wang Huning and Indonesian Speaker of the House of Representatives Puan Maharani on 28 May 2024

Wang was the secretary-general of the 20th CCP National Congress, held in October 2022.[37] He was also one of the deputy directors of the drafting team helping draft Xi's speech for the National Congress.[35] Following the first plenary session of the 20th CCP Central Committee, Wang was reappointed to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party as its 4th ranking member,[38] and was succeeded by Cai Qi as the first secretary of the Secretariat. On 17 January 2023, he was elected as a member of the National Committee of the CPPCC.[39] Though initial reporting before the CCP Congress by the South China Morning Post suggested that he was going to become the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress,[40] he instead became the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in March 2023 at the 1st Session of the 14th CPPCC.[38][41] He also kept his position as the deputy leader of the CCDR.[42]

According to a Foreign Affairs article by Odd Arne Westad in 2023, Wang is also a member of the CCP National Security Commission and "is perhaps the most influential presence after Xi himself."[43] In 2024, he was a deputy head to the Xi-led drafting committee that wrote the resolutions of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee in July 2024.[35]

The 2024 Overseas Chinese World Conference for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China was held on August 20 in Hong Kong. Wang Huning sent a congratulatory letter to the conference acknowledging that compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as overseas Chinese have long been promoting reunification and deepening the international community's commitment to the One China principle. He encouraged Chinese people in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as foreign countries keep pace with the trends of history, safeguard the overall interests of China and join hands in opposing "Taiwan independence" and promoting reunification[44]

#### Taiwan

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Nikkei Asia reported in January 2023 that Wang would become the deputy leader of the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs, effectively making him one of the top people in charge with creating a policy in regard to Taiwan. It also reported that he would be tasked with laying the groundwork for unification with Taiwan, coming up with a theory that replaces "one country, two systems" to serve as a metric to measure progress toward China's unification goals and decide if a military operation is necessary.[45] On 10 February, he met with Andrew Hsia, vice chairman of the Kuomintang.[46] During the visit, Wang said that "Taiwan independence is incompatible with peace and runs counter to the well-being of Taiwan compatriots".[46] Wang also met with Liu Chao-shiuan, president of the Council of the Summit for Entrepreneurs Across the Taiwan Strait, in April, and Wu Cherng-dean, chairman of the New Party, in June.[47] On 11 September, he was chosen as the president of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, a body designed to advance unification with Taiwan; the CPPCC chairman also generally serves as the president of the council.[48] On 27 April 2024, he met with a Kuomintang delegation led by Fu Kun-chi, the Majority Leader in the Legislative Yuan, in Beijing.[49]

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Wang is thought to be behind the political thought published under the names of three CCP leaders: Three Represents of Jiang Zemin,[18] the Scientific Outlook on Development of Hu Jintao,[19] and Xi Jinping Thought.[27] He is also believed to play a key role in drafting concepts including Chinese Dream, Chinese-style modernization,[50] and the Belt and Road Initiative, concepts promoted by Xi.[51] According to the South China Morning Post, Xi "regularly asks for Wang’s input on his major speeches and statements".[35]

### System of government

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During his tenure as a professor in the 1980s, Wang initially gained attention for his advocacy of neoauthoritarianism, the view that a centralized government is necessary to maintain economic growth and stability, which could later slowly do political reforms from within.[27][52] In a paper published in 1986, he wrote that it is "very important to comply with the constitution" lest a new Cultural Revolution happen.[53] His political views changed after his visit to the U.S., after which he advocated for a centralized one-party state that was culturally unified and self-confident to resist the influence of liberal ideas.[54] In a 1995 interview, he said that "[i]n a place without central authority, or a place where central authority has become weakened, the country would be mired in a state of division and chaos," and that "[a] strong central authority is the fundamental guarantee for achieving rapid and stable development at a relatively low cost during the process of modernization."[21]

### Culture

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In his 1988 essay "The Structure of China's Changing Political Culture", Wang said that the CCP must reconsider how a nation's "software", meaning culture, values, and attitudes, shaped its "hardware", meaning economics, systems, and institutions. Some sources have attributed this type of thought to be "a daring break from the materialism of Orthodox Marxism."[54] Wang said that China was under a great transformation, but the new model under the socialism with Chinese characteristics was leaving China with no core values, which "could serve only to dissolve societal and political cohesion". Wang also said that the introduction of Marxism to China was not completely positive, and that while the CCP criticized China's historical values since 1949, it has not paid enough attention to creating and shaping its own core values. He recommended that China combine its historical and modern values (including foreign Marxist values).[54] Wang has also written China's first academic paper on "soft power", and has been thought to be the driving force in China's investments in promoting its culture overseas.[13]

### United States

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On 26 June 2010, Chinese leader Hu Jintao talked with U.S. President Barack Obama at the G20 Toronto Summit. Behind them was Wang Huning.

In 1991, after his visit to the U.S., Wang wrote the book America Against America.[12] The book talked about the increasing challenges he saw in the U.S., such as inequality, economic conflicts, decaying of social values and commodification.[54] He also praised the strengths of the U.S., such as its modernity[52] and was described by The Economist as "seeing the weaknesses in America's system, but not exaggerating them".[34] In Wang's own words:

> My intention with this title is to show that America contains contradictions that cannot be dismissed with a single sentence. In the old days, people had a dogmatic view of American society as merely the “exploitation of surplus value,” a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,” and nothing more. Now there is another extreme, some people imagine the United States as a paradise, rich and without flaw. In fact American society doesn’t match either of these descriptions, and often finds itself in fundamental contradiction with them. There are strengths and weaknesses, and wherever strength can be found, weakness can also be found. America is a contradiction, it contains multitudes. This is what I mean by “America Against America.”[55]

## Personal life

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Wang has been described by former colleagues as an insomniac and workaholic, introverted, discreet and "almost obsessively low-profile."[20] After entering into politics in the 1990s, he cut off most contact with his academic colleagues.[54] Having studied French in university, Wang is a fluent French speaker.[7] He is also an avid reader of Wuxia novels.[16] In his memoir Political Life, Wang said his goal in life was to keep writing books and teaching students.[40]

### Family

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Wang's first marriage, to Zhou Qi, an international relations expert at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Renmin University of China, ended in divorce after he went to Zhongnanhai in 1996. They had no children. He later married a nurse in Zhongnanhai. They have one child.[7]

### Public perceptions

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Having worked closely with three consecutive paramount leaders, Wang demonstrated a rare and remarkable ability to retain influence under leaders belonging to various Communist Party factions.[54] Additionally, he has been described as "China's Kissinger" by The Hankyoreh,[56] and is called guóshī (Chinese: 国师) by Chinese netizens, a title historically given to top religious leaders in Imperial China, particularly the Yuan Dynasty.[52]

## Works

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Library resources

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By Wang Huning

* Resources in your library
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Wang's books include The Logic of Politics—The Principles of Marxist Political Science, General Introduction to New Politics, Analysis of Modern Western Politics, Analysis of Comparative Politics and Debate Contest in Lion City, all in Chinese. Others include (all in Chinese):

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 (1987). National Sovereignty.
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 (1987). Analysis of Comparative Politics.
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 (1988). Analysis of Contemporary Western Politics.
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 (1988). Introduction to Public Administration.
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 (1989). Analysis of Administrative Ecology.
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 (1989). Collection of Wang Huning.
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 (1990). Anti-Corruption: Experiment in China.
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 (1990). Corruption and Anti-Corruption: Study of Contemporary Oversees Corruption Problem.
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 (1991). Culture of Contemporary Chinese Village Family.
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 (1991). America Against America.
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 (1993). Debate in Lion Castle.
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 (1994). Political Logic.
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 (1995). Political Life.

### Translations

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* Wang, Huning (1991), America Against America, Tikhanov Library
* \-- , Wang Huning, “Reflections on the Cultural Revolution and the Reform of China's Political System, " (Translated from 王沪宁, "'文革'反思与政治体制改革," originally published in the World Economic Herard 世界经济导报 May 8, 1986),Introduction by Matthew D. Johnson and Translation by David Ownby, Reading the China Dream

## See also

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## Notes

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1. ^ Between 1972 and 1980, the East China Normal University was renamed as the Shanghai Normal University, and is different from the current Shanghai Normal University.
2. ^ There are arguments on when Wang was admitted to the training class. Normally it took three years to graduate for undergraduate-level education in China during the Cultural Revolution. Official records by East China Normal University suggest that Wang entered the School in 1977, which is widely believed to be true. According to Wang himself, he remained in the countryside for four and a half years in his book Culture of Contemporary Chinese Village Family.
3. ^ The training school did not offer a degree for graduates. On 13 July 1982, after countless petitions for certificates, the Shanghai Higher Education Bureau issued notice that all training school graduates who participated and passed an exam which consisted of political theory, Chinese literature and foreign languages would be granted a junior college (大专) degree.[5]
4. ^ In the Chinese academic system, law is a much broader sector includes law (legal studies), political science, international relations and Marxist theory.

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### Works cited

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* Wong, Chun Han (2023). Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781982185732.

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