{{Short description|none}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2023}} {{Infobox Political post | post = Mayor | body = the Shanghai Municipal People's Government | insignia = File:中華人民共和國國徽.svg | insigniasize = 100px | insigniacaption = National emblem of China | flag = Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg | flagcaption = Flag of China | flagsize = 125px | image = 龚正 2023-12-09.jpg | imagesize = | incumbent = Gong Zheng | incumbentsince = 23 March 2020 | style = | status = Provincial and ministerial-level official | residence = | termlength = Five years, renewable | constituting_instrument = | precursor = | inaugural = Chen Yi | formation = 28 May 1949 | deputy = Deputy Mayors<br>Secretary-General | salary = | website = | appointer = Shanghai Municipal People's Congress | native_name = {{lang|zh-hans|上海市人民政府市长}} | department = Shanghai Municipal People's Government | reports_to = Shanghai Municipal People's Congress and its Standing Committee | type = Head of government | nominator = Presidium of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress }}
The '''mayor of Shanghai''', officially the '''Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government''', is the head of Shanghai Municipality and leader of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.
The mayor is elected by the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and responsible to it and its Standing Committee. The mayor is a provincial level official and is responsible for the overall decision-making of the municipal government. The mayor is assisted by an executive vice mayor as well as several vice mayors. The mayor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The mayor the second-highest-ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Shanghai Committee.<ref name=":222">{{Cite web |title=Decoding Chinese Politics: Provincial Leaders |url=https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/decoding-chinese-politics?policy=provincial-leaders&group=organizations&size=rank&connection=personal |access-date=5 March 2025 |website=Asia Society}}</ref> The current mayor is Gong Zheng, who took office on 23 March 2020.
== List of mayors ==
=== Republic of China === {{See also|Shanghai (1927–1949)}} {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! rowspan="2" |{{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Officeholder ! colspan="2" |Term |- !Took office !Left office |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government |- !1 |frameless|133x133px |'''Huang Fu'''<br>{{small|(1883–1936)}} |7 July 1927 |14 August 1927 |- !– |<!-- Do not use a placeholder image here, per WP:IPH --> |'''Wu Zhenxiu'''<br>{{small|(1883–1966)}} |15 August 1927 |16 September 1927 |- !2 |frameless|142x142px |'''Zhang Dingfan'''<br>{{small|(1891–1945)}} |17 September 1927 |31 March 1929 |- !3 |frameless|146x146px |'''Zhang Qun'''<br>{{small|(1889–1990)}} |1 April 1929 |29 June 1930 |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government |- !(3) |frameless|146x146px |'''Zhang Qun'''<br>{{small|(1889–1990)}} |1 July 1930 |6 January 1932 |- !4 |frameless|155x155px |'''Wu Tiecheng'''<br>{{small|(1893–1953)}} |7 January 1932 |31 March 1937 |- !5 |frameless|146x146px |'''Yu Hung-chun'''<br>{{small|(1898–1960)}} |1 April 1937 |13 August 1945 |}
==== Japanese occupation ==== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! rowspan="2" |{{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Officeholder ! colspan="2" |Term |- !Took office !Left office |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai |- !1 |frameless|132x132px |'''Su Xiwen'''<br>{{small|(1889–1945)}} |5 December 1937 |27 April 1938 |- ! colspan="5" |Supervisor of the Shanghai Municipal Great Way Office |- !(1) |frameless|132x132px |'''Su Xiwen'''<br>{{small|(1889–1945)}} |28 April 1938 |15 October 1938 |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government |- !2 |frameless|156x156px |'''Fu Xiaoan'''<br>{{small|(1872–1940)}} |16 October 1938 |11 October 1940 |- !– |frameless|132x132px |'''Su Xiwen'''<br>{{small|(1889–1945)}} |11 October 1940 |19 November 1940 |- !3 |frameless|115x115px |'''Chen Gongbo'''<br>{{small|(1892–1946)}} |20 November 1940 |11 November 1944 |- !– |frameless|140x140px |'''Wu Songgao'''<br>{{small|(1898–1953)}} |12 November 1944 |14 January 1945 |- !4 |frameless|113x113px |'''Zhou Fohai'''<br>{{small|(1897–1948)}} |15 January 1944 |12 September 1945 |}
==== After World War II ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! {{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! colspan="2" class="unsortable" | Officeholder ! Term ! class="unsortable" | Party |- ! colspan="4" |Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government |- !1 |frameless|119x119px |'''Qian Dajun'''<br>{{small|(1893–1982)}} |{{dts|12 September 1945}}<br>–<br>{{dts|19 May 1946}} | rowspan="5" |Kuomintang |- !2 |frameless|127x127px |'''K. C. Wu'''<br>{{small|(1903–1984)}} |{{dts|20 May 1946}}<br>–<br>{{dts|30 April 1949}} |- !3 |frameless|138x138px |'''Chen Liang'''<br>{{small|(1896–1994)}} |{{dts|1 May 1949}}<br>–<br>{{dts|24 May 1949}} |- !– |frameless|137x137px |'''Zhao Zukang'''<br>{{small|(1900–1995)}} |{{dts|24 May 1949}}<br>–<br>{{dts|28 May 1949}} |}
=== People's Republic of China === Since communist victory in the Shanghai Campaign, Shanghai has been led by its Mayor and Party Secretary, all officeholders of which are members of the Chinese Communist Party.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! {{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! colspan="2" class="unsortable" | Officeholder ! Term ! class="unsortable" |{{Ref.}} |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government |- !1 |frameless|126x126px |'''Chen Yi'''<br>{{small|(1901–1972)}} |{{dts|28 May 1949}}<br>–<br>{{dts|February 1955}} |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Committee |- !(1) |frameless|126x126px |'''Chen Yi'''<br>{{small|(1901–1972)}} |{{dts|February 1955}}<br>–<br>{{dts|November 1958}} |- !2 |frameless|134x134px |'''Ke Qingshi'''<br>{{small|(1902–1965)}} |{{dts|November 1958}}<br>–<br>{{dts|April 1965}} |- !3 |<!-- Do not use a placeholder image here, per WP:IPH --> |'''Cao Diqiu'''<br>{{small|(1909–1976)}} |{{dts|November 1965}}<br>–<br>{{dts|February 1967}} |- ! colspan="5" |Director of the Shanghai People's Commune Interim Committee |- !4 |frameless|134x134px |'''Zhang Chunqiao'''<br>{{small|(1917–2005)}} |{{dts|February 1967}}<br>–<br>{{dts|February 1967}} |- ! colspan="5" |Director of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee |- !(4) |frameless|134x134px |'''Zhang Chunqiao'''<br>{{small|(1917–2005)}} |{{dts|February 1967}}<br>–<br>{{dts|October 1976}} |- !5 |frameless|122x122px |'''Su Zhenhua'''<br>{{small|(1912–1979)}} |{{dts|October 1976}}<br>–<br>{{dts|January 1979}} |- !6 |<!-- Do not use a placeholder image here, per WP:IPH --> |'''Peng Chong'''<br>{{small|(1915–2010)}} |{{dts|January 1979}}<br>–<br>{{dts|December 1979}} |- ! colspan="5" |Mayor of the Frontier Studiesai Municipal People's Government |- !(6) |<!-- Do not use a placeholder image here, per WP:IPH --> |'''Peng Chong'''<br>{{small|(1915–2010)}} |{{dts|December 1979}}<br>–<br>{{dts|March 1980}} |- !7 |137x137px |'''Wang Daohan'''<br>{{small|(1915–2005)}} |{{dts|April 1981}}<br>–<br>{{dts|July 1985}} |- !8 |138x138px |'''Jiang Zemin'''<br>{{small|(1926–2022)}} |{{dts|July 1985}}<br>–<br>{{dts|April 1988}} |- !9 |136x136px |'''Zhu Rongji'''<br>{{small|(born 1928)}} |{{dts|April 1988}}<br>–<br>{{dts|April 1991}} |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mufson |first=Steven |date=5 March 1998 |title=Economic Pragmatist to Be China Premier |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/china/stories/zhu030598.htm |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> |- !10 |118x118px |'''Huang Ju'''<br>{{small|(1938–2007)}} |{{dts|April 1991}}<br>–<br>{{dts|February 1995}} |- !11 |100x100px |'''Xu Kuangdi'''<br>{{small|(born 1936)}} |{{dts|February 1995}}<br>–<br>{{dts|December 2001}} |<ref name=":025">{{Cite book |last=Hu |first=Richard |title=Reinventing the Chinese City |date=2023 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-21101-7 |location=New York |pages=146}}</ref> |- !12 |<!-- Do not use a placeholder image here, per WP:IPH --> |'''Chen Liangyu'''<br>{{small|(born 1944)}} |{{dts|December 2001}}<br>–<br>{{dts|February 2003}} |- !13 |144x144px |'''Han Zheng'''<br>{{small|(born 1955)}} |{{dts|February 2003}}<br>–<br>{{dts|26 December 2012}} |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-10 |title=Meet Han Zheng, the man just appointed China's new vice-president |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3212351/meet-han-zheng-man-just-appointed-chinas-new-vice-president |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref> |- !14 |150x150px |'''Yang Xiong'''<br>{{small|(1953–2021)}} |{{dts|26 December 2012}}<br>–<br>{{dts|17 January 2017}} |<ref>{{cite news |date=26 December 2012 |script-title=zh:韩正辞去上海市市长职务 杨雄任上海市代市长 |trans-title=Han Zheng resigns as mayor of Shanghai; Yang Xiong appointed acting mayor of Shanghai |url=http://shzw.eastday.com/shzw/G/20121226/u1ai96290.html |access-date=30 December 2012 |newspaper=Eastday |language=zh |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120848/http://shzw.eastday.com/shzw/G/20121226/u1ai96290.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- !15 |118x118px |'''Ying Yong'''<br>{{small|(born 1957)}} |{{dts|20 January 2017}}<br>–<br>{{dts|13 February 2020}} |<ref>{{Cite news |last=Areddy |first=James T. |date=2017-01-20 |title=Shanghai Government Names Ying Yong Mayor |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/shanghai-government-named-ying-yong-mayor-1484917034 |access-date=2023-11-30 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> |- !16 |133x133px |'''Gong Zheng'''<br>{{small|(born 1960)}} |{{dts|23 March 2020}}<br/>–<br/>''Incumbent'' |<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 March 2020 |title=Shanghai set to endorse Gong Zheng as its new mayor |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3075990/shanghai-set-endorse-gong-zheng-its-new-mayor}}</ref> |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Shanghai}} {{Shanghai leaders}} {{Regional leaders in China}} {{Authority control}}
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