Wu Yingjie

Wu was born in Changyi County, Shandong province. His father received a job assignment in the Tibetan Plateau when he was just one year old, so he moved to the region with his family. He arrived in Nyingchi in October 1974 as a rusticated youth during the Cultural Revolution. Wu is a graduate of the Tibet Minzu University and took part in leadership education at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1977 he began working for a power generation station in the western suburbs of Lhasa. In August 1983 he joined the Tibet Autonomous Region's department of education. He would work in education for the next two decades. In 1987 he began overseeing elementary and secondary education as a regional bureaucrat. In 1990, he was put in charge of accepting donations of educational resources from other parts of the country. In 1994 he joined the Autonomous Region Education Commission, rising to deputy secretary in May 1998. In March 2000 he was named deputy head of the education department, then promoted to head in 2000.

In January 2003, Wu was named Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region; in June 2005 he took on the regional propaganda portfolio, and joined the regional party standing committee next month. In November 2006 he became Executive Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

In November 2011 he was named deputy regional party chief. In April 2013 he was named executive deputy party chief. In August 2016, he became the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Wu leaped directly from the deputy party chief position into the office of the party secretary, breaking a tradition that TAR party chiefs would be appointed from other regions in China.{{cite news |script-title=zh:吴英杰任西藏自治区党委书记 陈全国另有任用(图)|url=http://news.ifeng.com/a/20160828/49851420_0.shtml|work=Ifeng|date=28 August 2016}}

On 23 October 2021, he was appointed vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee.{{cite news|url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_15039348 |script-title=zh:刘家义任第十三届全国人大财经委员会副主任委员 |work=thepaper |date=23 October 2021 |access-date=28 October 2021 |language=zh}} In March 2023, Wu was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the committee on culture, historical data and studies.{{cite web|url=http://www.cppcc.gov.cn/zxww/2023/03/15/ARTI1678846221297164.shtml|title=十四届全国政协文化文史和学习委员会第一次主任会议在京召开|newspaper=The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference|date=2023-03-15|access-date=2024-09-09}}

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In December 2022, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Wu under the Global Magnitsky Act for human rights abuses in Tibet.{{Cite news |last=Willemyns |first=Alex |date=9 December 2022 |title=U.S. issues slew of sanctions ahead of Human Rights Day |work=Radio Free Asia |url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/human-rights-sanctions-12092022152335.html |access-date=10 December 2022}}{{Cite web |date=December 9, 2022 |title=Treasury Sanctions Over 40 Individuals and Entities Across Nine Countries Connected to Corruption and Human Rights Abuse |url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1155 |access-date=2022-12-11 |website=U.S. Department of the Treasury |language=en}}

On December 11, 2024, on International Human Rights Day, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Mélanie Joly announced Canada's sanctions against Wu and seven other government officials of Xinjiang and Tibet involved in serious human rights violations.{{Cite web|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/zh-hans/%E6%96%B0%E9%97%BB/2125936/%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E4%BA%BA%E6%9D%83%E6%97%A5-%E5%8A%A0%E6%8B%BF%E5%A4%A7-%E5%88%B6%E8%A3%81-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD-%E9%AB%98%E5%AE%98|title=国际人权日 加拿大制裁中国八名高官|newspaper=Radio Canada|date=2024-12-11|first=Donna|last=Chan|access-date=2025-01-03}}

On 16 June 2024, Wu was suspected of "serious violations of laws and regulations" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China.{{Cite news |date=16 June 2024 |title=Senior political advisor Wu Yingjie under probe |url=https://english.news.cn/20240616/b730099a05504ab2878c9b6f8c4fc55a/c.html |access-date=16 June 2024 |work=Xinhua}} On July 24, the Eighth Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference made the decision to remove Wu as a member of the committee and as director of the committee on culture, historical data and studies.{{cite web|url=http://www.cppcc.gov.cn/zxww/2024/07/25/ARTI1721894076690284.shtml|title=全国政协十四届常委会第八次会议闭幕 王沪宁主持并讲话|newspaper=The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference|date=2024-07-25|access-date=2024-09-09}} He was expelled from the Communist Party after an investigation conducted against him revealed that he failed to implement the 'party's policies' and meddled in local projects for personal gain.{{Cite news |date=2024-12-10 |title=十四届全国政协原常委、文化文史和学习委员会原主任吴英杰严重违纪违法被开除党籍和公职|url=http://www.news.cn/legal/20241210/7cde51b1ef1b44ca80dba36aa3c21ed3/c.html |access-date=2024-12-10 |work=Xinhua|language=zh}} On December 24, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced his arrest.{{cite web|url=https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/china/story20241224-5642817|title=中共西藏自治区原书记吴英杰被捕|newspaper=Lianhe Zaobao|date=2024-12-24|access-date=2025-01-03}}

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