Mo Wenxiang (Chinese:莫文祥;pinyin:Mò Wénxiáng; October 1923 – 12 March 2013) was a Chinese politician who served asMinister of Aviation Industry in the early 1980s and retired in 1999.

He was a representative of the12th and13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the1st,7th and8th National People's Congress. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the7th and8th National People's Congress.

Mo was born Mo Guangyou (莫广有) in Zhaozhuang Township,Xiajin County,Shandong, in October 1923. Mo joined the Communist Revolution in 1938 and joined theChinese Communist Party (CCP) in July of the same year.

During theSecond Sino-Japanese War, he served in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Military District.^[1] During theChinese Civil War, he successively served as a staff member of the General Political Department of the Northeast Democratic United Army, political commissar of the 3rd Arsenal of the Military Industry Department of the 4th Field Army, and deputy director of the 53rd Arsenal of the Military Industry Department of the Northeast Military Region.^[2]

After the founding of the Communist State in 1949, he was appointedparty secretary of Shenyang No. 53 Factory, factory director of the No. 111 Factory, and factory director of the No. 410 Factory, responsible for military production. He was factory director of Shenyang Songling Machinery Factory in 1961 and subsequently secretary of the Secretariat of the CCP Shenyang Municipal Committee two years later.^[3]

During theCultural Revolution, he sufferedpolitical persecution. He was reinstated in 1972 as deputy director of Shenyang Municipal Revolutionary Committee and director of National Defense Industry Office. In 1982, he was chosen as minister of the newly foundedMinistry of Aerospace Industry.^[4]He retired in 1999.

On 12 March 2013, he died inBeijing, at the age of 89.

• 1923 births
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• People from Xiajin County
• People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
• Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
• Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Delegates to the 1st National People's Congress
• Members of the Standing Committee of the 7th National People's Congress
• Members of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress

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