Li Mingyuan

Li Mingyuan (Chinese: 李明远; born August 1965) is a Chinese politician and the current deputy party chief and acting mayor of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province.

Biography

Li was born in Wuqi County, Shaanxi, in 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.

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

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 deputy party chief 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 province, replacing Shangguan Jiqing, who took the fall for the failed eco-environmental renovation operation of Qinling.