Lu Wei (politician)

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Lu Wei
鲁炜
Lu Wei
Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China
In office August 2013 – June 2016
General secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Wang Chen
Succeeded by	Xu Lin
Vice-Mayor of Beijing
In office March 2011 – April 2013
Leader	Guo Jinlong → Wang Anshun (mayor)
Personal details
Born	January 1960 (age 64) Chaohu, Anhui, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (expelled)
Alma mater	Guangxi University of Radio and Television Renmin University of China

Lu Wei (simplified Chinese: 鲁炜; traditional Chinese: 魯煒; pinyin: Lǔ Wěi; born January 1960) is a former Chinese politician. He served as the deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party, the head of the General Office of the Central Leading Group for Internet Security and Informatization (one and the same with the Cyberspace Administration of China, CAC) from August 2013^[1] to June 2016.^[2] Lu was previously Vice-Mayor of Beijing and the head of the Beijing Party organization's propaganda department, among other posts.^[3] Lu was named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2015.^[4] Multiple charges brought in 2017 resulted in Lu being sentenced to fourteen years in prison in 2019.^[5][6]