Background
Bai Wenqi was born in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province in October 1955.
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Bai Wenqi was born in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province in October 1955.
He is political commissar of the Jinan Military Region Air Force, and the former political commissar of the North Sea Fleet. He is of Mongol ethnicity. He has a graduate degree in military strategy from PLA National Defence University.
Bai has years of experience in the political tracks of both North Sea Fleet (National Science Foundation) and South Sea Fleet (SSF) naval aviation units.
From early 2004 to 2005, he served as the deputy political commissar of National Science Foundation naval aviation, based in Qingdao, Shandong Province. From 2005 to 2008, he was the director of the SSF"s Naval Aviation Political Department based in Haikou on Hainan Island.
He was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in July 2006. In April 2008, he returned to the North Sea Fleet to serve as political commissar of National Science Foundation Naval Aviation, and concurrently as a North Sea Fleet deputy political commissar.
Bai was promoted to North Sea Fleet political commissar in 2012, after his predecessor Wang Dengping was transferred to the South Sea Fleet.
He also concurrently served as deputy political commissar of the Jinan Military Region, of which National Science Foundation is a part. He was the first top-tier commander of the National Science Foundation with naval aviation background. In August 2013, he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral (zhong jiang).
In July 2015, Bai was transferred from the North Sea Fleet to the Jinan Military Region Air Force to serve as its political commissar.
He retained his position as deputy political commissar of Jinan Magnetic Resonance.
He is also a member of the 12th National People"s Congress.