Zhang Xinqi

Zhang Xinqi (; born August 1956) is a retired Chinese politician who spent his entire career in his home-province Shandong. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in February 2021. He is the second vice ministerial-level official in Shandong to be targeted by China's top anticorruption watchdog since the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2017, after Ji Xiangqi, former vice governor of Shandong. He is also the second high-level official caught in the year of the ox, after Wang Fuyu, former chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Born and raised in Rongcheng, Shandong, he worked in government after college. During the late Cultural Revolution, he worked as a sent-down youth for more than a year. In 2011, the local financial revenue of Qingdao was 56.6 billion yuan, and the afforestation project accounted for 7.2% of the financial revenue of Qingdao. On August 17, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and dismissed from public office. On August 30, he has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes as per a decision made by the Supreme People's Procuratorate. On November 1, he was indicted on suspicion of accepting bribes.

On February 20, 2023, Zhang was sentenced to life in prison for taking 155 million yuan in bribes.