Bai Wenqi

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 MR. In February 2016, Bai was appointed the inaugural political commissar of the Air Force of the Northern Theater Command, which was newly established in Central Military Commission chairman Xi Jinping's military reform.

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 NSF is a part. He was the first top-tier commander of the NSF with naval aviation background. In August 2013, he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral (zhong jiang). He is also a member of the 12th National People's Congress.

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 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.