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List of mayors of Shanghai

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Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government
上海市人民政府市长
National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent Gong Zheng since March 23, 2020
Shanghai Municipal People's Government
Type	Head of government
Reports to	Shanghai Municipal People's Congress and its Standing Committee
Appointer	Shanghai Municipal People's Congress
Term length	Five years, renewable
Formation	July 7, 1923
Deputy	Deputy Mayors

The mayor of Shanghai, officially the Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, is the head of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The mayor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and is the second-highest ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Shanghai Committee.

Republic of China[edit]

Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government[edit]

1. Huang Fu (July 7, 1927 – August 14, 1927)
2. Wu Zhenxiu (August 15, 1927 – September 16, 1927)
3. Zhang Dingfan (September 17, 1927 – March 31, 1929)
4. Zhang Qun (April 1, 1929 – June 29, 1930)

Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government[edit]

1. Zhang Qun (July 1, 1930 – January 6, 1932)
2. Wu Tiecheng (January 7, 1932 – March 31, 1937)
3. Yu Hung-chun (April 1, 1937 – August 13, 1945)

Mayors under Japanese occupation[edit]

Mayor of the Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai[edit]

1. Su Xiwen (December 5, 1937 – April 27, 1938)

Supervisor of the Shanghai Municipal Great Way Office[edit]

1. Su Xiwen (April 28, 1938 – October 15, 1938)

Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government[edit]

1. Fu Xiaoan (October 16, 1938 – October 11, 1940)
2. Su Xiwen (October 11, 1940 – November 19, 1940)
3. Chen Gongbo (November 20, 1940 – November 11, 1944)
4. Wu Songgao (November 12, 1944 – January 14, 1945)
5. Zhou Fohai (January 15, 1944 – September 12, 1945)

Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government (after World War II)[edit]

1. Qian Dajun (September 12, 1945 – May 19, 1946)
2. K. C. Wu (May 20, 1946 – April 30, 1949)
3. Chen Liang (April 1-30, 1949)
4. Zhao Zukang (May 24, 1949 – May 28, 1949)

People's Republic of China[edit]

Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government[edit]

1. Chen Yi (May 28, 1949 – February 1955)

Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Committee[edit]

1. Chen Yi (February 1955 – November 1958)
2. Ke Qingshi (November 1958 – April 1965)
3. Cao Diqiu (November 1965 – February 1967)

Director of the Shanghai People's Commune Interim Committee[edit]

1. Zhang Chunqiao (February 1967)

Director of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Political party
			Took office	Left office
1		Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005)	February 1967	October 1976	Chinese Communist Party
2		Su Zhenhua (1912-1979)	October 1976	January 1979
3		Peng Chong (1915-2010)	January 1979	December 1979

Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government (from 1979)[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Political party
			Took office	Left office
1		Peng Chong (1915-2010)	December 1979	March 1980	Chinese Communist Party
2		Wang Daohan (1915-2005)	April 1981	July 1985
3		Jiang Zemin (1926-2022)	July 1985	April 1988
4		Zhu Rongji (born 1928)	April 1988[1]	April 1991
5		Huang Ju (1938-2007)	April 1991	February 1995
6		Xu Kuangdi (born 1937)	February 1995[2]	December 2001
7		Chen Liangyu (born 1946)	December 2001	February 2003
8		Han Zheng (born 1954)	February 2003[3]	26 December 2012
9		Yang Xiong (1953-2021)	26 December 2012[4]	17 January 2017
10		Ying Yong (born 1957)	20 January 2017[5]	13 February 2020
11		Gong Zheng (born 1960)	23 March 2020[6]	Incumbent

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