Li Wenrong

After graduation in August 1984, Li became a technician at Kunming Machine Tool Factory (now Kunming Machinery Industry Group Co., Ltd.).^[3] At, there, he eventually became deputy party secretary in October 2000.^[3]

Li began his political career in December 2002, when he was appointed vice governor of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.^[3] He became executive vice governor in June 2006 and was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefectural Committee, the prefecture's top authority.^[3] He successively served in Kunming as vice mayor in December 2007, executive vice mayor in June 2008, deputy director of Yunnan Provincial Commission of Industry and Information Technology in November 2011, and mayor in December 2012.^[3][4] He was party secretary of Qujing, the top political position in the city, beginning in October 2015.^[3] He was admitted to standing committee member of the CCP Yunnan Provincial Committee, the province's top authority, in December 2016.^[5] In January 2022, he rose to become vice chairperson of the Yunnan Provincial People's Congress, the province's top legislative body.^[6]

On 18 March 2025, Li was suspected of "serious violations of laws and regulations" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China.^[7] He is the fourth mayor of Kunming to be targeted by China's top anticorruption watchdog since Xi Jinping's continues an anti-graft dragnet at all levels of government, military and ruling Communist Party, after Zhang Zulin, Wang Xiliang, and Liu Jiachen.^[8] On September 4, he was stripped of his posts within the CCP and in the public office.^[9]