Zhang Zaiwang
Zhang Zaiwang, hailed from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a Chinese politician. He served as the executive secretary and deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tianjin Municipal People's Congress.
Biography
In September 1938, Zhang Zaiwang enrolled in the youth training program at Anwubao, Shaanxi Province, and engaged in the anti-Japanese salvation movement; following his studies, he was incorporated into the Northwest Youth Field Service Corps and subsequently held the positions of member and director-general of the political and labor team within 's guerrilla force in Meng County, Henan Province. In 1939, he enrolled in the inaugural branch of the Shanxi Southeast Anti-Japanese Military University and subsequently held positions as a publicity officer at the main anti-Japanese university and the Taiyue branch, as a publicity captain, and as a political instructor. He became a Chinese Communist Party member in December 1940.During the Chinese Civil War, Zhang Zaiwang was involved in military political affairs, serving as a political instructor for the officers' brigade and the special brigade of the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Military and Political University, as well as the head of the Literary and Artistic Task Force, and the political instructor for the students' brigade and political task force, among other roles. In 1948, Zhang Zaiwang held the positions of political coordinator for the Literature and Industrial Corps of the People's Liberation Army's 18th Corps and chief of the Missionary and Educational Section within the Corps' Political Department.
Following the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Zaiwang held the positions of deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the Party Committee of Sichuan North District, member of the Land Reform Committee of the Sichuan North Administrative Office, and director of the General Office of the Party Committee of Sichuan North District. From 1952, he served as the deputy secretary-general of the Rural Affairs Department of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, deputy head of the Southwest Rural Affairs Group and the East China Group of the Central Regional Affairs Department, deputy head of the Third Section in the Second Office of the Central Committee Secretariat, and head of the Literary and Educational Section in the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party from 1955.
In 1964, Zhang Zaiwang assumed the position of head of the Publicity Department of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Zhang Zaiwang was subjected to persecution during the Cultural Revolution. Upon resuming his duties, he held the positions of deputy head of the political and labor group of the Tibet Autonomous Region's Revolutionary Committee, deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Tibet Daily, head of the Party Core Group, secretary of the Party Committee of the Tibet Daily, and director of the Revolutionary Committee. In 1976, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region and appointed head of the Publicity Department of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
In December 1978, he was appointed as the Party Secretary at Nankai University, where he oversaw the rectification of the institution and addressed past injustices, therefore realigning the school's operations. From July 1982 to September 1985, Zhang Zaiwang held various positions as the executive secretary, secretary, and deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the CCP, while concurrently serving as the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the same committee. In April 1983, he held the positions of chairman and secretary of the Standing Committee of the 10th Tianjin Municipal People's Congress, and in March 1988, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th National People's Congress.
Zhang Zaiwang is a member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a delegate to the 12th, 13th, and 16th CCP National Congresses, a deputy to the 6th and 7th National People's Congress, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th NPC.
He died on November 28, 2010, at the age of 93.