The governor of Anhui, officially the Governor of the Anhui Provincial People's Government, is the head of Anhui Province and leader of the Anhui Provincial People's Government.
The governor is elected by the Anhui Provincial People's Congress, and responsible to it and its Standing Committee. The governor is a provincial level official and is responsible for the overall decision-making of the provincial government. The governor is assisted by an executive vice governor as well as several vice governors. The governor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The governor is the second highest-ranking official in the province after the secretary of the CCP Anhui Committee. The current acting governor is Wang Dongwei, who took office on 23 September 2026.
List of governors
People's Republic of China PortraitName (English)Name (Chinese)Term startTerm endSong RenqiongFebruary 1949December 1949Zeng XishengDecember 1949March 1955Huang YanMarch 1955April 1967April 1967April 1968Li DeshengApril 1968December 1973Song PeizhangMay 1975June 1977Wan LiJune 1977December 1979Zhang JingfuDecember 1979March 1981Zhou ZijianMarch 1981April 1983April 1983June 1987Lu RongjingJune 1987April 1989Fu XishouApril 1989December 1994Hui LiangyuDecember 1994October 1998Wang TaihuaOctober 1998January 2000Xu ZhonglinJanuary 2000October 2002Wang JinshanOctober 2002December 2007Wang SanyunDecember 2007December 2011Li BinDecember 2011March 2013Wang XuejunMarch 2013June 2015Li JinbinJune 2015September 2016Li GuoyingSeptember 20161 February 2021Wang Qingxian1 February 202123 September 2026Wang Dongwei23 September 2026Incumbent
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