Ms Tian Xiangli has been appointed as the Head of the Sichuan Provincial United Front Works Department.

(Comment: Tian Xiangli was born in 1963 in Xingtai, Hebei. She graduated with a degree in Chinese at Hebei Teacher's College (later merged into Hebei North University), graduating in 1984. She then joined the CCP. She held administrative positions in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang before becoming involved with the Communist Youth League (CYL) in the province, serving successively as the Youth League leader in Shijiazhuang, then Hebei province. In 2003 Tian Xiangli took on her first major political role as Deputy Party Chief of Tangshan (full department-level rank); she then obtained a graduate degree in management from Tianjin University. In 2005 she was named Executive Deputy Head of the provincial United Front Department and was later promoted as the province's Director of Human Resources. In 2008 she was appointed Vice Chairperson of Sichuan's People's Political Consultative Conference. In January 2011 she joined the elite ranks of the provincial Party Standing Committee as provincial United Front chief. In February 2013 was appointed Party Secretary of Qinhuangdao. In March 2011 she was selected as the chief supervisor of the elections of the top officers of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In September 2015, she was named head of the Propaganda Department of Hebei province. In December 2017, in her first transfer outside of her home province, she was named head of the United Front Department of Sichuan.)