Wang Lixia
Wang Lixia 王莉霞 ᠸᠠᠩ ᠯᠢ ᠰᠢᠶᠠ | |
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Wang in Beijing, October 2023 | |
| Chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region | |
| In office August 5, 2021 – September 4, 2025 | |
| Party Secretary | Shi Taifeng Sun Shaocheng |
| Preceded by | Bu Xiaolin |
| Succeeded by | Bao Gang |
| Party Secretary of Hohhot | |
| In office August 31, 2019 – August 2, 2021 | |
| Deputy | Zhang Baicheng He Haidong (mayor) |
| Preceded by | Yun Guangzhong |
| Succeeded by | Bao Gang |
| Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province | |
| In office January 31, 2013 – November 24, 2016 | |
| Governor | Lou Qinjian Hu Heping |
| Mayor of Tongchuan | |
| In office January 25, 2011 – February 4, 2013 | |
| Party Secretary | Feng Xinzhu |
| Preceded by | Feng Xinzhu |
| Succeeded by | Guo Dawei |
| Director of the Provincial Bureau of Statistics of Shaanxi Province | |
| In office December 31, 2005 – February 28, 2011 | |
| Governor | Chen Deming Yuan Chunqing Zhao Zhengyong |
| Preceded by | Hu Shouxian |
| Succeeded by | Ding Yunxiang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 1964 (age 61) Jianping County, Liaoning Province, China |
| Party | China Communist Party |
| Spouse | Wang Zhenlong |
| Children | 1 |
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Wang Lixia (Chinese: 王莉霞; pinyin: Wáng Lìxiá; Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠩ
ᠯᠢ
ᠰᠢᠶᠠ; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity born in Jianping County, Liaoning Province. A member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), she graduated from Liaoning University with a degree in Economics and Statistics, earned a master's degree in economics from the Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics (now the School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University), and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Xiamen University.
She came from academic field and later went through a series of political offices, including Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics, Mayor of Tongchuan, Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, Standing Committee Member of the CCP Inner Mongolia Committee, Head of its United Front Work Department, and CCP Committee Secretary of Hohhot. She later served as Deputy Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia and Chairwoman of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Wang was also a member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
In August 2025, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission announced that she was under investigation for alleged serious violations of discipline and law, which marked her political downfall.
Biography
Early Years and Shaanxi Province
Wang Lixia was born in Jianping, Liaoning Province. She graduated from the Department of Economics at Liaoning University in 1985, majoring in Planning and Statistics, and began her professional career. She later entered the Department of Statistics at the Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics (now the School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University) to pursue a master's degree. After graduating in July 1988, she joined the Xi'an Institute of Statistics as a lecturer. She became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in December 1992. At the university, she served successively as a lecturer and associate professor in the Department of Economic Statistics. During this period, from September 1997 to July 2000, she studied at the School of Economics of Xiamen University and earned a Ph.D. in Economics.
Wang began her political career in July 2000, when she was appointed Deputy Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics. In December of the same year, she was awarded the title of Professor.[1] She took the office as Director of the Bureau at the end of 2005.[2]
At the beginning of 2011, Wang went to Tongchuan, a city located north of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, to serve as its acting mayor.[3] In February, she left her position in the Provincial Statistics Bureau, and in April she formally engaged in the position of Tongchuan's mayor.[4]
In January 2013, Wang was elected Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province,[5] overseeing commerce and trade, health and family planning, foreign affairs, and Taiwan-related affairs.[6]
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Wang was transferred to Inner Mongolia in October 2016. There, she entered the regional leadership as a standing member of the Party Committee[7] and was also appointed Head of the United Front Work Department.[8] A year later, in October 2017, she rose onto the national political stage when she was elected as an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party at the CCP's 19th National Congress.[9] Her responsibilities in Inner Mongolia deepened in August 2019, when she became CCP Committee Secretary of Hohhot, the capital city of the region.[10]
Two years later, in August 2021, she was elevated again — this time to Deputy Party Secretary of the autonomous region, while simultaneously assuming the role of acting Chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Regional Government.[11][12] She officially got into the position the following month,[13] being the third woman who owns this job.
By October 2022, she was elected as a full member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[14] The following year, in February 2023, she was elected as a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress, representing Inner Mongolia.[15]
Downfall
On August 22, 2025, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of CCP and the National Supervisory Commission announced that Wang Lixia was under investigation for serious violations of discipline and law.[16] She became the third sitting provincial-level administrative chief in mainland China to fall from power that year, after Jin Xiangjun, Governor of Shanxi Province, and Lan Tianli, Chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In September, She stepped down as Chairwoman of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and her position as a delegate to the regional People's Congress was also revoked.[17]
References
- ^ Wu Di (2021-08-05). "【Personnel】A "Professor" succeeds a "Doctor," becoming one of the two female heads of provincial-level governments in the country". Shangguan News.
- ^ "Personnel Appointments and Removals of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government". Shaanxi Provincial People's Government. 2008-06-25.
- ^ "Wang Lixia appointed Acting Mayor of Tongchuan City; Feng Xinzhu resigns as Mayor". Sohu News. 2011-01-27. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ^ "Wang Lixia elected Mayor of Tongchuan City". Sina. 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ^ "Biography of Wang Lixia". National People's Congress website. Archived from the original on 2014-05-03. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ "Resume of Wang Lixia". Shaanxi Provincial People's Government website. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
- ^ "Leadership reshuffle in Inner Mongolia: cadres born in the 1960s from Qinghai, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Guizhou reassigned". Caixin. Archived from the original on 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
- ^ "Wang Lixia, member of the Inner Mongolia Party Standing Committee and the head of its United Front Work Department". The Paper. Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
- ^ "中国共产党第十九届中央委员会候补委员名单" [List of alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]. State Council of the People's Republic of China (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- ^ "Wang Lixia, member of the Inner Mongolia Party Standing Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department, appointed Party Secretary of Hohhot (with biography)". China Economic Net. Archived from the original on 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ "The Party Group of the Autonomous Region Government convenes its third (expanded) meeting of 2021: Conveying and studying the spirit of the Politburo meeting and the 14th Plenary Session of the 10th Party Committee, and making arrangements for implementation. Chaired by Wang Lixia". Inner Mongolia News Network. 2021-08-02. Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
- ^ "王莉霞任内蒙古自治区副主席、代理主席(图/简历)" [Wang Lixia appointed Vice Chairwoman and Acting Chairwoman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (with photo/biography)]. People's Daily (in Chinese). 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ^ "Wang Lixia elected Chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region". Gov.cn. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ^ "（二十大受权发布）中国共产党第二十届中央委员会委员名单" [(Authorized release of the 20th National Congress) List of Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]. Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese). 2022-10-22. Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
- ^ "List of Delegates to the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on 2023-02-25. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
- ^ "Wang Lixia, Deputy Party Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Chairwoman of the Regional Government, under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the CCDI and the National Supervisory Commission". Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission (in Chinese (China)). 2025-08-22. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ^ "Sun Shaocheng Presides Over and Speaks at the 19th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th People's Congress of the Autonomous Region". Inner Mongolia News Network (in Chinese (China)). 2025-09-04. Retrieved 2025-09-04.