Bai Xiangqun
Bai Xiangqun | |
|---|---|
白向群 | |
| Vice Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government | |
| In office May 2012 – May 2018 | |
| Chairwoman | Bu Xiaolin |
| Communist Party Secretary of Xilingol League | |
| In office February 2011 – May 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Rong Tianhou |
| Succeeded by | Yu Yongquan |
| Communist Party Secretary of Wuhai | |
| In office February 2008 – February 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Zhao Zhong |
| Succeeded by | Bao Changqing |
| Mayor of Wuhai | |
| In office March 2003 – February 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Zhao Zhong |
| Succeeded by | Hou Fengqi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 1962 (age 62) Beipiao, Liaoning, China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (expelled; 1984-2018) |
| Alma mater | Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Renmin University of China |
Bai Xiangqun (Chinese: 白向群; pinyin: Baí Xiàngqún; born September 1962) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. As of April 2018 he was under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency and the National Supervisory Commission. Previously he served as vice-chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government. Bai was the second high-ranking official probed since the National Supervisory Commission was established in March 2018, behind Wang Xiaoguang, former vice-governor of Guizhou.
Born in Beipiao, Liaoning in 1962, Bai graduated from the Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1984, when he was about to graduate. After university he entered the workforce in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, and then Wuhai, where he was mayor for 5 years and party chief for 3 years. He rose to become party chief of Xilingol League in 2011, but having held the position for only one year, and soon he was promoted again to become vice-chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government. Before he stepped down, his subordinates Hou Fengqi, Bo Liangen (薄连根), He Yonglin (何永林) and Wu Wenyuan (武文元) were sacked in Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping's continues a campaign against corruption at all levels of government.