[1] He served in the railway force of the People's Liberation Army from November 1970 to March 1978 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1973.
[1] Starting in 1982 Wei worked in Sichuan province; he became a political operative in 1986, joining the provincial party Organization Department.
Sichuan was represented, unusually, by the provincial party chief Wang Dongming, sparking rumours that Wei may have been under investigation.
In the investigation report, Wei was said to have dishonoured the party, did not "treasure chances at re-education", and "violated political, organizational and work discipline."
In January 2016, she left her post as CPPCC Party secretary of Qingyang District, a signal that she had been implicated by her husband's investigation.