You Xigui, male, Han nationality, is a native of Dingzhou, Hebei province. He was born in 1939, joined the PLA in 1958 and joined the CPC in 1960. He was conferred to the rank of major general in 1990 and lieutenant general in 1997. You served in the Central Guard Regiment successively as a sanitarian, assistant surgeon, assistant of logistics department, and staff. Subsequently he served as the deputy section head of the administration section of the headquarters of the Central Guard Division. You served as director of the Central Guard Bureau in 1999. He is an alternate member of the 16th CPC Central Committee.