Wang Lixia
Wang Lixia is a Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity born in Jianping County, Liaoning Province. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, she graduated from Liaoning University with a degree in Economics and Statistics, earned a master's degree in economics from the Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Xiamen University.
She came from academic field and later went through a series of political offices, including Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics, Mayor of Tongchuan, Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, Standing Committee Member of the CCP Inner Mongolia Committee, Head of its United Front Work Department, and CCP Committee Secretary of Hohhot. She later served as Deputy Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia and Chairwoman of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Wang was also a member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
In August 2025, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission announced that she was under investigation for alleged serious violations of discipline and law, which marked her political downfall.
Biography
Early Years and Shaanxi Province
Wang Lixia was born in Jianping, Liaoning Province. She graduated from the Department of Economics at Liaoning University in 1985, majoring in Planning and Statistics, and began her professional career. She later entered the Department of Statistics at the Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics to pursue a master's degree. After graduating in July 1988, she joined the Xi'an Institute of Statistics as a lecturer. She became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in December 1992. At the university, she served successively as a lecturer and associate professor in the Department of Economic Statistics. During this period, from September 1997 to July 2000, she studied at the School of Economics of Xiamen University and earned a Ph.D. in Economics.Wang began her political career in July 2000, when she was appointed Deputy Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics. In December of the same year, she was awarded the title of Professor. She took the office as Director of the Bureau at the end of 2005.
At the beginning of 2011, Wang went to Tongchuan, a city located north of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, to serve as its acting mayor. In February, she left her position in the Provincial Statistics Bureau, and in April she formally engaged in the position of Tongchuan's mayor.
In January 2013, Wang was elected Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province, overseeing commerce and trade, health and family planning, foreign affairs, and Taiwan-related affairs.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Wang was transferred to Inner Mongolia in October 2016. There, she entered the regional leadership as a standing member of the Party Committee and was also appointed Head of the United Front Work Department. A year later, in October 2017, she rose onto the national political stage when she was elected as an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party at the CCP's 19th National Congress. Her responsibilities in Inner Mongolia deepened in August 2019, when she became CCP Committee Secretary of Hohhot, the capital city of the region.Two years later, in August 2021, she was elevated again — this time to Deputy Party Secretary of the autonomous region, while simultaneously assuming the role of acting Chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Regional Government. She officially got into the position the following month, being the third woman who owns this job.
By October 2022, she was elected as a full member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The following year, in February 2023, she was elected as a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress, representing Inner Mongolia.