| Office1: | Mayor of Xi'an | ||||||||
| Term Start1: | 18 February 2019 | ||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Shangguan Jiqing | ||||||||
| Office2: | Communist Party Secretary of Weinan | ||||||||
| Term Start2: | January 2018 | ||||||||
| Term End2: | January 2019 | ||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Lu Zhiyuan | ||||||||
| Successor2: | Wei Jianfeng | ||||||||
| Office3: | Mayor of Weinan | ||||||||
| Term Start3: | March 2015 | ||||||||
| Term End3: | March 2018 | ||||||||
| Predecessor3: | Xi Zhengping | ||||||||
| Successor3: | Li Yi | ||||||||
| Li Mingyuan | |||||||||
| Native Name: | 李明远 | ||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1965 8, df=yes | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Wuqi County, Shaanxi, China | ||||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University Xidian University | ||||||||
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Li Mingyuan (; born 30 August 1965) is a Chinese politician and the current Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary and mayor of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi.[1]
Li was born in Wuqi County, Shaanxi, in 30 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 Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary 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, replacing Shangguan Jiqing, who took the fall for the failed eco-environmental renovation operation of Qinling.[2] He was installed as mayor of Xi'an on February 18.