Zhang Xinqi
Zhang Xinqi | |||||||
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张新起 | |||||||
| Vice Chairman of Shandong People's Congress | |||||||
| In office February 2017 – January 2018 | |||||||
| Chairman | Jiang Yikang Liu Jiayi | ||||||
| Mayor of Qingdao | |||||||
| In office March 2012 – February 2017 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Xia Geng | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Meng Fanli | ||||||
| Communist Party Secretary of Weifang | |||||||
| In office September 2006 – December 2011 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Zhang Chuanlin | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Xu Liquan | ||||||
| Mayor of Weifang | |||||||
| In office December 2002 – September 2006 | |||||||
| Preceded by | Wang Boxiang | ||||||
| Succeeded by | Xu Liquan | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | August 1956 (age 68) Rongcheng, Shandong, China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1977–2021; expelled) | ||||||
| Alma mater | Ludong University Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 張新起 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张新起 | ||||||
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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. 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. 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.
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. 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. At the height of his political career, he was vice chairman of Shandong People's Congress.
He was a delegate to the 10th and 12th National People's Congress.