Wang Lixia

Wang Lixia
王莉霞
Wang in 2023
12th Chairwoman of Inner Mongolia
Assumed office
5 August 2021
Party SecretaryShi Taifeng
Sun Shaocheng
Preceded byBu Xiaolin
Communist Party Secretary of Hohhot
In office
31 August 2019 – September 2021
Preceded byYun Guangzhong
Succeeded byBao Gang
Head of the Inner Mongolia CCP United Front Department
In office
November 2016 – August 2019
Preceded byBu Xiaolin
Succeeded byDuan Zhiqiang
Mayor of Tongchuan
In office
January 2011 – January 2013
Preceded byFeng Xinzhu
Succeeded byGuo Dawei
Personal details
BornJune 1964 (age 60)
Jianping County, Liaoning, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materLiaoning University
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xiamen University

Wang Lixia (Chinese: 王莉霞; pinyin: Wáng Lìxiá; Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠩ
ᠯᠢ
ᠰᠢᠶᠠ
; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician of Mongol heritage, currently serving as deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Inner Mongolia Committee and chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government (equivalent of a provincial governor). In 2019, she was the only female party secretary of a provincial-level capital in China.[1] Prior to that, she served as party secretary of Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and director of the United Front Department of the CCP Inner Mongolia Committee from 2016 to 2019 and vice governor of Shaanxi from 2013 to 2016.

  1. ^ 【关注】全国唯一!这位来自辽宁的女性中候补主政省会. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). 2019-09-01.