Bayanqolu

Bayanqolu (; born 5 October 1955) is a Chinese politician of Mongol ethnicity. He served as the Party Secretary of Jilin from 2014 to 2020 and the Governor of Jilin from 2012 to 2014; Bayanqolu was, at the time of his appointment, the only ethnic-minority official serving as a provincial-level Party Secretary. Prior to his posts in Jilin province, Bayanqolu was best known for his seven-year term as the Party Secretary of the coastal city of Ningbo, Zhejiang. Bayanqolu was born in Otog Front Banner, Inner Mongolia.

He attended Inner Mongolia Normal University and University of Jinan, where he obtained a master's degree in economics. He rose through the ranks of the Communist Youth League in the 1990s before being transferred to work in Zhejiang as vice governor, then as Ningbo party chief.