Lan Tianli

Lan Tianli (Chinese: 蓝天立; born October 1962) is a Chinese politician previously served as chairman and deputy party secretary of Guangxi and chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is of Zhuang ethnicity. He was an alternate of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Lan was born in Yizhou District, Hechi, Guangxi, in October 1962. He taught at local schools since 1980. After graduating from Guangxi University for Nationalities in 1987, he was dispatched to the Science and Technology Commission of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where he was promoted to its director in 2003. After receiving his master's degree in political economics from Guangxi University in 1996, he earned his doctor's degree in management science and engineering from Beihang University. In 2007, he earned a master's degree in public administration at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.^[1]

Lan served as deputy party chief and mayor of Hechi in 2007, and was promoted to the party chief position one year later. In 2011 he became vice-chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, rising to chairman in 2018. In October 2020, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party appointed him deputy party secretary of Guangxi.^[2] On October 19, he was elected chairman at the 19th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th People's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.^[3]

On May 16, 2025, Lan 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.^[4] Lan was resigned the Chairman of Guangxi post by the Standing Committee of Guangxi People's Congress on May 29.^[5]