First head of Social Work Department appointed

Wu Hansheng has become the first head of the Social Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, a news report showed.

The new department under the Communist Party of China Central Committee was unveiled in March. It is tasked with leading work in fields such as promoting voluntary services, training social workers, responding to public complaints, managing industrial associations and administrating grassroots communities.

The Legal Daily reported on Friday that as the head of the department, Wu hosted the closing session of a seminar held for provincial and minister-level officials on works to handle public complaints.

Wu, 60, became the deputy Party secretary of the State Organs Works Committee of the CPC Central Committee who is in charge of routine duties in 2022.

In 2020, he was appointed as the leader of discipline inspection and supervision team sent by CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

He was also the former Party chief of Yingkou city, Liaoning province and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Shanxi Provincial Committee.