He studied at Jiangsu Institute of Commercial Management Cadres and is one of the main leaders at the Nanjing Students' Autonomous Federation.
On June 4, the student procession led by Wu went to a small town called Zhang Baling in Chuzhou in Anhui Province.
In the summer of 1990, when the first issue of the China Democracy Front magazine was published, he was found by the Nanjing Public Security Bureau.
[13] On November 17, 1991, US Secretary of State James Baker visited China and requested for the Chinese government to release political prisoners, including Wu Jianmin.
[16][18] Wu was invited to attend the June 4th Movement commemorative activities and delivered speeches in Washington, D.C., Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Yorkas well as in other places.