Bai Xiangqun

Bai Xiangqun (Chinese: 白向群; pinyin: Baí Xiàngqún; born September 1962) is a Chinese politician who spent most of his 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.^[1]

Born in Beipiao, Liaoning in 1962, Bai graduated from the Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities. He joined the Communist Party of China 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 became 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.^[2]

Biography

Bai was born in Beipiao, Liaoning in September 1962. He is of Mongol ethnicity. In September 1980, he entered the Inner Mongolia Nationality Normal College (now Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities), majoring in physics, where he graduated in July 1984. He was a part-time student of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Renmin University of China.

After graduation, he was assigned to the Education Bureau of Chifeng Municipal Government as an official. He served as deputy secretary of Youth League Committee of Chifeng in February 1993, and two years later promoted to the secretary position. In August 1996 he was promoted to become deputy secretary of Youth League Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, rising to secretary in September 2000. In March 2003, he was transferred to Wuhai, serving as mayor and deputy party chief, and then party chief, the top political position in the city, beginning in February 2008. In February 2011, he was appointed party chief of Xilingol League, a position he held until May 2012, when he was promoted again to become vice-chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government.^[3]

On April 25, 2018, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission said in a statement on their website that Bai Xiangqun was put under investigation for alleged "serious violations of discipline and laws."^[4]

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