Wang Fang (politician)

Wang Fang (Chinese: 王芳; pinyin: Wáng Fāng; 1920–2009) was a politician of the People's Republic of China, who most notably served as Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province from March 1983 to April 1987, and then Minister of Public Security from April 1987 to November 1990.

In August 1942, he served as the head of the "enemy work area" (responsible for sabotage and assassinations behind the Japanese lines) of the Luzhong Military Region.

During the Chinese Civil War, he was director of the Security Department of the Central Shandong Military Region.

During the Cultural Revolution he was removed from all positions, arrested and labeled as a "capitalist roader", but after the fall of the Gang of Four he was one of the special prosecutors in the trial that convicted them.

He played an active role in crushing the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, and, together with the Minister of State Security, Jia Chunwang, worked to dismantle and liquidate the foundations that George Soros had established in China.