Tian Xiangli

Tian Xiangli (Chinese: 田向利; born March 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2015 as the head of the propaganda department of Hebei province. She has background in the Communist Youth League. Previously, she was Communist Party Secretary of Qinhuangdao, a city in Hebei.

Biography

Tian was born in 1963 in Xingtai, Hebei. She graduated with a degree in Chinese at Hebei Teacher's College (later merged into Hebei North University), graduating in 1984. She then joined the Communist Party of China. She took on local administrative positions in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang before becoming involved with the Communist Youth League organization in the province, serving successively as the Youth League leader in Shijiazhuang, then Hebei province.

In 2003 Tian took on her first major political role as deputy party chief of Tangshan (full department-level rank); she then obtained a graduate degree in management from Tianjin University. In 2005 she was named executive deputy head of the provincial United Front department, then became provincial director of human resources.^[1]

In 2008 she was made a vice-chair of the provincial People's Political Consultative Conference. In January 2011 she joined the elite ranks of the provincial Party Standing Committee as provincial United Front chief, then in February 2013 was named party chief of Qinhuangdao. In March 2011 she was selected as the chief supervisor of the elections of the top officers of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[2] In September 2015, she was named head of the propaganda department of Hebei province.

References

1. 田向利同志简历，河北新闻网，2011-11-23
2. 政协选举：杜青林三问没投票的举手 某委员三次举手，凤凰网，2013年03月12日