Zhou Xianwang (Chinese:周先旺;pinyin:Zhōu Xiānwàng; born November 1962) is aChinese politician currently serving as vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[1] Previously, he served asDeputy Party Committee Secretary and mayor ofWuhan. He is ofTujia heritage. He entered the workforce in September 1980, and joined theChinese Communist Party in January 1987.^[2]

Zhou was born inJianshi County,Hubei, in November 1962. Zhou served in his home-county for a long time, what he was promoted to deputy magistrate in February 1993. He was secretary ofEnshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Committee of theCommunist Youth League in January 1994, and held that office until September 1995. In September 1995 he was promoted to becomedeputy party secretary and magistrate ofXuan'en County, a position he held until April 1998. He served as vice-mayor of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in April 1998, and four years later promoted to the mayor position. In February 2008, he was appointed head of Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce and director of Hubei Provincial Foreign Investment Office, he remained in that position until November 2012, when he was transferred toHuangshi and appointed theparty secretary. He concurrently served as deputy governor of Hubei from March 2017 to May 2018. In May 2018, he was named acting mayor and deputy party secretary ofWuhan, replacing Wan Yong.^[3] On January 26, 2021, he was elected vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

In December 2019, when a newcoronavirus, designatedSARS-CoV-2, broke out in Wuhan, local people accused Zhou and his superior, Party secretaryMa Guoqiang of being slow to respond to the epidemic.^[4][5] On January 27, 2020, in an interview onChina Central Television, Zhou acknowledged that the city government had failed to promptly disclose information about the outbreak while stating that "as a local government, we need to get authorisation before disclosure" which led many to think that he was pointing at the central government for being slow on giving him authorisation. Zhou then offered to resign over the January 23 decision to lock down the city.^[6][7][8][9]

In addition, Zhou was criticized for hosting the Baibuting^[10] banquet on January 18, 2020, where 40,000 Wuhan families^[11][12] cooked and ate a communal meal in celebration of the New Year, five days before the city went into lockdown.

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