60-year-old Li Shixiang is from Tongzhou, Beijing. He has never left Beijing during his political career.(China News Service)
(Shanghai/Hong Kong Comprehensive News) The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China and the National Supervisory Committee reported the day before yesterday that Li Shixiang, former executive vice mayor of Beijing and vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and is currently under investigation.Li Shixiang thus became the first provincial and ministerial-level senior official to be sacked in Beijing after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October last year.
Based on The Paper, Sing Tao Daily and other reports, Li Shixiang is also the second deputy ministerial-level cadre investigated and dealt with in Beijing after Lu Xiwen, then deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, who was sacked at the end of 2015.At that time, Lu Xiwen was investigated for serious violations of discipline and became the first tiger in Beijing after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In February last year, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for accepting bribes of more than 18 million yuan (about 3.6 million Singapore dollars).
According to public information, 60-year-old Li Shixiang is a native of Tongzhou, Beijing. He has never left Beijing in his political career.He used to be the magistrate of Changping County, Beijing, the mayor of Chaoyang District, and the secretary of the Chaoyang District Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Worked with Lu Xiwen, Beijing's first tiger for a long time
Li Shixiang became a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2006.Lu Xiwen, Beijing's first tiger, was also promoted to the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee in that year, and the two have worked together for a long time since then.After that, Li Shixiang became the executive deputy mayor in 2012.
After serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee for 11 years, Li Shixiang changed his career. In January last year, he was transferred to the vice chairman of the Beijing Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference.
However, Li Shixiang did not appear in the leadership team of the new CPPCC during the re-election of the Beijing CPPCC in January this year.
According to the official resume, Li Shixiang was also an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In addition, according to the WeChat official account Decision Magazine, a Chinese think tank media decision-making company, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the end of 2012, 26 provincial and ministerial officials of the CPPCC system have been investigated, including four officials who have been investigated so far after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.Vice Chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference.
