Social Work Department head unveiled

Wu Hansheng has been appointed as the first head of the Social Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, according to a news report.

The new department was announced in March. It is tasked with promoting voluntary service, training social workers, responding to public complaints, managing industrial associations and administering grassroots communities.

The Legal Daily reported on Friday that as the new head of the department, Wu hosted the closing session of a seminar for provincial- and ministry-level officials on handling public complaints.

The 60-year-old became deputy Party secretary of the State Organs Works Committee of the CPC Central Committee, which is in charge of routine duties, in 2022.

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

He previously served as Party chief of Yingkou city, Liaoning province, and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Shanxi Provincial Committee.