Xing Shanping

She became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1993. Her initial career was established at the Jinan Municipal Planning Bureau, where she held successive positions as deputy secretary and then secretary of the Youth League Committee, followed by deputy director and subsequently director of the office. In 2001, she was designated as a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Lixia District Committee of Jinan and as Head of the Organization Department. In September 2004, she assumed the role of Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee for Higher Education Institutions of the Shandong Provincial Committee.^[2][3]

From March 2009 to January 2011, she participated in the in-service graduate program in global economics at the Central Party School. In October 2011, she was designated as the Party Secretary of Shandong Agricultural University. In May 2015, she assumed the roles of chairwoman and party secretary of the Shandong Provincial Women's Federation. In June 2017, she was designated as a member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as the Head of its United Front Work Department.^[4]

In January 2019, she was assigned to Fujian Province, where she held the position of a member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Head of the United Front Work Department, while also serving as President of the Fujian Institute of Socialism.^[5] In December 2019, she was also named as Deputy Party Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). In March 2020, she was appointed as the Head of the Publicity Department of the Fujian Provincial CCP Committee and President of the Fujian Federation of Social Sciences.^[6]

In July 2020, she resigned from her position in the United Front Work Department while maintaining her roles as Head of the Publicity Department and President of the Social Sciences Federation.^[7] In October 2021, she was designated as the Head of the Organization Department of the Fujian Provincial CCP Committee, while concurrently maintaining her roles in the Publicity Department and the Federation of Social Sciences. In November 2021, she was simultaneously appointed President of the Fujian Provincial Party School and President of the Fujian Administrative Institute.^[8][9]

In May 2024, Xing was designated as the Deputy Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. She concurrently holds the positions of President of the Shaanxi Provincial Party School (Shaanxi Administrative Institute) and first vice president of the China Yan’an Cadre College.^[10][11]

She serves as an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the CCP, and a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). She served as a deputy in both the 13th and 14th People's Congresses of Fujian Province (her term as a representative concluding in January 2025) and is presently a deputy in the 14th Shaanxi Provincial People's Congress.^[1]