Hou Fengqi (; born March 1962) is a former Chinese

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

who spent most of his career in the cities of

Bayannur Bayannur or Bayannao'er (; mn, ''Bayannaɣur qota'', Mongolian Cyrillic Баяннуур хот) is a prefecture-level city in western Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Until 1 December 2003, the area was called Bayannur League. Ba ...

and Wuhai, in

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. He was investigated by the

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's anti-graft agency in November 2015. Previously he served as Communist Party Secretary of Wuhai. In October 2017, he was sentenced to 17 years for accepting bribes and holding a huge amount of property from an unidentified source.

Career

Born in March 1962, he studied and then worked as Secretary of Youth League Branch at Baotou Junior Normal College. From August 1983 to September 1989 he worked in the 208 geological prospecting brigade of Baotou Nuclear Industry. In September 1989 he was accepted to

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...

and graduated in July 1991. After graduation, he was assigned to the Propaganda Department of CPC Inner Mongolia Committee, where he worked there until June 1996. In June 1996 he was vice-mayor of Linhe, two years later he was promoted to become deputy secretary-general of

. He was a member of the CPC Bayannur Standing Committee and Communist Party Secretary of Linhe District from July 2004 to November 2006. Then he was promoted to become executive vice-mayor, a position he held until February 2008, when he was transferred to Wuhai and appointed

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. In May 2013 he became the Communist Party Secretary, and served until November 2015.

Downfall

On November 20, 2015, he was suspected of "serious violations of discipline", said one-sentence statement issued by the ruling

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's corruption watchdog body, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). On November 26, he was removed from his posts for involvement in corruption. In October 2017, he was sentenced to 17 years for accepting bribes and holding a huge amount of property from an unidentified source. Hou's wife Yang Xiu'e () was also sentenced to 3 years. And his superior Bai Xiangqun was put under investigation in April 2018.

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