Wang Lixia

Wang Lixia
王莉霞
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ᠰᠢᠶᠠ
Wang in Beijing, October 2023
Chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
In office
August 5, 2021 – September 4, 2025
Party SecretaryShi Taifeng
Sun Shaocheng
Preceded byBu Xiaolin
Succeeded byBao Gang
Party Secretary of Hohhot
In office
August 31, 2019 – August 2, 2021
DeputyZhang Baicheng
He Haidong (mayor)
Preceded byYun Guangzhong
Succeeded byBao Gang
Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province
In office
January 31, 2013 – November 24, 2016
GovernorLou Qinjian
Hu Heping
Mayor of Tongchuan
In office
January 25, 2011 – February 4, 2013
Party SecretaryFeng Xinzhu
Preceded byFeng Xinzhu
Succeeded byGuo Dawei
Director of the Provincial Bureau of Statistics of Shaanxi Province
In office
December 31, 2005 – February 28, 2011
GovernorChen Deming
Yuan Chunqing
Zhao Zhengyong
Preceded byHu Shouxian
Succeeded byDing Yunxiang
Personal details
BornJune 1964 (age 61)
Jianping County,
Liaoning Province, China
PartyChinese Communist Party (1992-2026, expelled)
SpouseWang Zhenlong
Children1
Alma mater
  • Liaoning University
  • Shaanxi Institute of Finance and Economics
  • Xiamen University

Wang Lixia (Chinese: 王莉霞; pinyin: Wáng Lìxiá; Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠩ
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; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity born in Jianping County, Liaoning Province. A member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 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 (now the School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University), 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 (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission announced that she was under investigation for alleged serious violations of discipline and law, which marked her political downfall.