Huang Lixin, female, Han nationality, is a native of Suqian, Jiangsu province. She was born in 1962, graduated from the Party school, and received a postgraduate degree in technology. She joined the CPC in 1983. Huang began her administrative career in flood prevention in her native Jiangsu. She was deputy to the 10th NPC, and elected vice-governor of Jiangsu province in 2003.
She was an alternate member of the 18th CPC Central Committee and is an alternate member of the 19th CPC Central Committee. In 2015 she became Secretary of the CPC Nanjing City Committee.