Zhang Xinqi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.
Zhang Xinqi
张新起
Vice Chairman of Shandong People's Congress
In office
February 2017 – January 2018
ChairmanJiang Yikang
Liu Jiayi
Mayor of Qingdao
In office
March 2012 – February 2017
Preceded byXia Geng [zh]
Succeeded byMeng Fanli
Communist Party Secretary of Weifang
In office
September 2006 – December 2011
Preceded byZhang Chuanlin [zh]
Succeeded byXu Liquan [zh]
Mayor of Weifang
In office
December 2002 – September 2006
Preceded byWang Boxiang
Succeeded byXu Liquan
Personal details
BornAugust 1956 (age 68)
Rongcheng, Shandong, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party (1977–2021; expelled)
Alma materLudong University
Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese張新起
Simplified Chinese张新起
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhāng Xīnqǐ

Zhang Xinqi (Chinese: 张新起; born August 1956) is a retired Chinese politician who spent his entire career in his home-province Shandong. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in February 2021.[1] He is the second vice ministerial-level official in Shandong to be targeted by China's top anticorruption watchdog since the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2017, after Ji Xiangqi, former vice governor of Shandong.[2] He is also the second high-level official caught in the year of the ox, after Wang Fuyu, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[3]

Born and raised in Rongcheng, Shandong, he worked in government after college. During the late Cultural Revolution, he worked as a sent-down youth for more than a year.[2] He joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1977. He served as mayor of Qingdao from 2012 to 2017, and mayor and party chief of Weifang from 2002 to 2011.[1] At the height of his political career, he was vice chairman of Shandong People's Congress.[1]

He was a delegate to the 10th and 12th National People's Congress.

  1. ^ a b c Yin Yue (尹悦) (23 February 2021). 中央再打虎！山东省人大常委会原副主任张新起落马. sina (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b 起底十九大以来山东第二“虎” ：种树引争议，任内曾背处分. 163.com (in Chinese). 23 February 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  3. ^ Xiong Yingqi (熊颖琪); Cai Eryi (蔡迩一) (23 February 2021). “种树市长”成牛年第二虎！任内曾发生“青岛大虾”事件. Tencent (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 February 2021.