Li Xi (politician)

Not to be confused with Li Xi (politician, born 1962), former Vice Mayor of Kunming.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Li Xi
李希
File:Li Xi en 2022.png Li Xi in 2022.
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 October 2022
General secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Zhao Leji
Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong
Incumbent
Assumed office October 2017
Deputy	Ma Xingrui (governor)
General secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Hu Chunhua
Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning
In office May 2015 – October 2017
Deputy	Chen Qiufa (Governor)
General secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Wang Min
Succeeded by	Chen Qiufa
Governor of Liaoning
In office May 2014 – May 2015
Preceded by	Chen Zhenggao
Succeeded by	Chen Qiufa
Personal details
Born	deputy October 1956 (age 67) Liangdang County, Gansu, China
Died	deputy
Resting place	deputy
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Parent	deputy
Alma mater	Northwest Normal University

Li Xi (Chinese: 李希; pinyin: Lǐ Xī; born October 1956) is a Chinese politician who is the current secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He is the seventh-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the current Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong province. Li spent much of his career in northwestern China, and served as the party secretary of the revolutionary base of Yan'an. He then served as the deputy party secretary of Shanghai, then Governor of Liaoning province, then promoted to party secretary.

Career

Li Xi was born in October 1956 in Liangdang County, Gansu province. He joined the work force in July 1975 and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1982. He graduated from Northwest Normal University. He started his career working as an ordinary functionary in the provincial propaganda department of the Gansu party organization. He worked in multiple positions in Gansu, including Party Secretary of Xigu District of the provincial capital Lanzhou, Deputy Party Secretary of Lanzhou, and Party secretary of Zhangye prefecture.

In 2006, Li became the Party secretary of Yan'an in neighbouring Shaanxi province. Yan'an is of special significance to the Communist Party as it is the site of Mao's revolutionary base after the end of the Long March. In 2011, he was transferred to Shanghai to serve as the Director of the municipality's Organization Department, and later Deputy Party secretary. In 2014, he was transferred again to Liaoning province in Northeast China, and was appointed Acting Governor and Deputy Party secretary of the province, replacing outgoing governor Chen Zhenggao. He was confirmed by the provincial legislature as Governor later that year. In May 2015, he succeeded Wang Min as Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning, becoming first-in-charge of the province.

At the 19th Party Congress, Li Xi was named a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. On October 28, 2017, shortly after the party congress, Li was transferred to take over the politically important southern province of Guangdong from Hu Chunhua as provincial party secretary.

Li is an alternate member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.