Lu Wei

Lu Wei is a former Chinese politician. He served as the deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, the head of the General Office of the Central Leading Group for Internet Security and Informatization from August 2013 to June 2016. Lu was previously Vice-Mayor of Beijing and the head of the Beijing Party organization's Publicity Department, among other posts. Lu was named by Time magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2015. Multiple charges brought in 2017 resulted in Lu being sentenced to fourteen years in prison in 2019.