Wang Lixia

Wang Lixia (; }}; born June 1964) is a former female 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. Provided by Wikipedia