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Li Mingyuan (politician)

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Li Mingyuan
李明远
Mayor of Xi'an
Assumed office
18 February 2019
Preceded byShangguan Jiqing
Communist Party Secretary of Weinan
In office
January 2018 – January 2019
Preceded byLu Zhiyuan
Succeeded byWei Jianfeng
Mayor of Weinan
In office
March 2015 – March 2018
Preceded byXi Zhengping
Succeeded byLi Yi
Personal details
Born (1965-08-30) 30 August 1965 (age 59)
Wuqi County, Shaanxi, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materTsinghua University
Xidian University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese李明遠
Simplified Chinese李明远
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLǐMíngyuǎn

Li Mingyuan (Chinese: 李明远; born 30 August 1965) is a Chinese politician and the current Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary and mayor of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi.[1]

Biography

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Li was born in Wuqi County, Shaanxi, in 30 August 1965. After the resumption of College Entrance Examination, he graduated from Tsinghua University and Xidian University. After university, he was assigned to the Xi'an Huanghe Electrical and Mechanical Co., Ltd. and worked there for four years.[citation needed]

In June 1995 he joined the Xi'an Institute of Posts and Telecommunications as a teacher.[citation needed]

In 2001, at the age of 36, he made a crossover from education to politics. In May he became deputy head of Shaanxi Provincial Information Industry Department, three years later he was appointed deputy secretary-general of Shaanxi Provincial Government. In February 2013 he was head of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Department, and held that office until January 2015, when he was transferred to Weinan and appointed Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary and acting mayor and then mayor there. On February 1, 2019, he was elected vice-mayor and acting mayor of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi, replacing Shangguan Jiqing, who took the fall for the failed eco-environmental renovation operation of Qinling.[2] He was installed as mayor of Xi'an on February 18.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ 李明远履新记:流水的市长,书生的彷徨. hexun.com (in Chinese). 2019-02-02.
  2. ^ 市人大常委会决定李明远为西安市代理市长. xiancn.com (in Chinese). 2019-02-01.
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Government offices
Preceded by
Xi Zhengping
Mayor of Weinan
2015–2018
Succeeded by
Li Yi
Preceded by Mayor of Xi'an
2019
Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Lu Zhiyuan
Communist Party Secretary of Weinan
2018–2019
Succeeded by
Wei Jianfeng