He was demoted to an insignificant position and put under probation by the disciplinary organs of the Chinese Communist Party in late 2018.
After graduating from Shaanxi Business School in August 1980, Shangguan Jiqing entered politics as a local official in Xiyang Town of Sanyuan County.
In July 1982 he was appointed as an official in the county's Bureau of Finance and over a period of ten years worked his way up to the position of Director.
[1] In October 2015 he was promoted to Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi province.
[4][5] Shangguan Jiqing was removed from the Communist Party and government's websites on November 2, 2018 without any official explanation.