Bai Wenqi was born in
Xingcheng,
Liaoning Province in October 1955. He is of
Mongol ethnicity. He has a graduate degree in
military science from
PLA National Defence University. Bai has years of experience in the political tracks of both
North Sea Fleet (NSF) and
South Sea Fleet (SSF)
naval aviation units. From early 2004 to 2005, he served as the deputy director of the NSF naval aviation Political Department, 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 NSF 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. ==References==