Wu Yingjie, who has worked in Tibet for 47 years, has been criticized for severely impacting the high-quality development of Tibet and fostering the growth of corruption.

On the afternoon of December 10, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission released a notice regarding the expulsion of Wu Yingjie, former Standing Committee member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former Director of the Culture, History, and Learning Committee.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission stated that investigations revealed Wu Yingjie had lost his ideals and beliefs, deviated from his original mission, and failed to effectively implement the Central Committee’s new era strategy for governing Tibet. He was found to have excessively intervened in engineering projects for personal gain, severely impacting the high-quality development of Tibet. He also failed to fulfill his primary responsibility for strict party governance, fostering corruption, and damaging the political ecosystem. Additionally, he violated the spirit of the Central Committee’s eight-point regulation by improperly accepting banquets, showed indifference to organizational discipline by not truthfully explaining issues during inquiries, breached the integrity baseline by accepting gifts and money, sought special treatment for relatives using his power, improperly intervened in disciplinary enforcement, and failed to manage and educate his family. He treated public power as a tool for personal gain, using his position to benefit others in project contracting and illegally accepting large sums of money.

The notice pointed out that Wu Yingjie had seriously violated the party’s political, organizational, integrity, work, and life disciplines, constituting severe job-related violations and suspected bribery. His actions, particularly after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party, showed a serious nature and had a negative impact, warranting severe punishment. In accordance with the “Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China,” the “Supervisory Law of the People’s Republic of China,” and the “Administrative Punishment Law for Public Officials of the People’s Republic of China,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection decided, after deliberation and approval from the Central Committee, to expel Wu Yingjie from the party, remove him from public office, confiscate his illegal gains, and transfer his suspected criminal activities to the procuratorial authorities for legal review and prosecution, along with the related assets.

Wu Yingjie, male, of Han ethnicity, was born in December 1956 in Changyi, Shandong Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in May 1987 and began working in October 1974. He holds a graduate degree from the Central Party School.

His public resume shows that from becoming a sent-down youth at the Linzhi Breeding Farm in Tibet Autonomous Region in 1974 to stepping down as the Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee in 2021, Wu Yingjie worked in Tibet for nearly 47 years.

Specifically, he served as the Deputy Secretary and Director of the Education Department of Tibet Autonomous Region, was promoted to Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Government in 2003, became a member of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department in 2005, later serving as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Regional Government, Deputy Secretary of the Regional Committee in 2011, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Regional Committee in 2013, and Secretary of the Regional Committee in August 2016, before stepping down in October 2021.

After leaving Tibet, Wu Yingjie served as the Deputy Chairman of the Education, Science, Culture, and Health Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress and as a Standing Committee member and Director of the Culture, History, and Learning Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

In June 2024, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Wu Yingjie, a Standing Committee member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Director of the Culture, History, and Learning Committee, was suspected of serious disciplinary violations and was currently under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.