The governor of Guizhou, officially the Governor of the Guizhou Provincial People's Government, is the head of Guizhou Province and leader of the Guizhou Provincial People's Government.
The governor is elected by the Guizhou 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 Guizhou 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 Guizhou Committee. The current governor is Li Bingjun, who took office on 24 November 2020.
List of governors
People's Republic of China PortraitName (English)Name (Chinese)Term startTerm endYang YongDecember 1949December 1954Zhou LinDecember 1954July 1965Li LiJuly 1965February 1967Li ZaiheFebruary 1967May 1971Lan YinongMay 1971September 1973Lu RuilinSeptember 1973February 1977Ma LiFebruary 1977September 1979Su GangJanuary 1980January 1983Wang ZhaowenJanuary 1983January 1993January 1993July 1996Wu YixiaJuly 1996September 1998Qian YunluDecember 1998January 2001Shi XiushiJanuary 2001July 2006Lin ShusenJuly 2006August 2010Zhao Kezhi28 September 201018 December 2012Chen Min'er18 December 201216 October 2015Sun Zhigang16 October 20156 September 2017Shen Yiqin6 September 201724 November 2020Li Bingjun24 November 2020Incumbent
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