Former Mayor Yang Wenbin was ousted over a month ago, and Jiang Wending was elected as the Mayor of Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province by a by election
Jiujiang, Jiangxi welcomes a new mayor.
According to the WeChat official account "Jiangxi People's Congress", the fourth session of the 16th People's Congress of Jiujiang was elected on June 3, 2023: Jiang Wen was appointed mayor of Jiujiang People's Government.
Previously, Jiang Wending was appointed as the Deputy Mayor and Acting Mayor of Jiujiang City on May 6th.
According to public information, Jiang Wending, male, Han ethnicity, was born in May 1972 in Changde, Hunan. He started working in April 1996 and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1992. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering and a Ph.D. in Economics.
Jiang Wending worked in various departments such as Sinopec Group and Sinopec Beijing Petroleum Branch in his early years, and served as a member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Sinopec Beijing Petroleum Branch in August 2018.
In January 2019, Jiang Wen was transferred to work in Jiangxi and appointed as a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology. In April 2020, Jiang Wending was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiujiang Municipal Committee and was appointed as Deputy Mayor in June of the same year. In September 2021, Jiang Wending was elected as the Deputy Secretary of the Jiujiang Municipal Party Committee.
In March this year, Yang Wenbin, who was originally the mayor of Jiujiang City, was transferred to the position of president of the Jiangxi Academy of Sciences. On April 21st, the Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision announced that Yang Wenbin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group and President of the Jiangxi Academy of Sciences, was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law. He voluntarily confessed his problems to the organization and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the Jiangxi Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.
On the day of Yang Wenbin's investigation, the Organization Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee issued a pre appointment notice for leading cadres. Among them, Jiang Wending, Deputy Secretary of the Jiujiang Municipal Party Committee, plans to nominate him as a candidate for mayor of a district city. After being publicly announced, Jiang Wending was nominated as a candidate for the mayor of Jiujiang City on April 28th.