The mayor of Tianjin, officially the Mayor of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, is the head of Tianjin Municipality and leader of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government.
The mayor is elected by the Tianjin 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 Tianjin 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 Tianjin Committee. The current mayor is Zhang Gong, who took office on 30 December 2021.
List of mayors
Republic of China
1928–1937 OfficeholderTerm of officeTook officeLeft officeNan GuixinJune 1928September 1928Cui TingxianSeptember 1928October 1930Zang QifangOctober 1930April 1931Zhang XuemingApril 1931October 1931Zhou LongguangOctober 1931December 1932Yu XuezhongDecember 1932August 1933Wang TaoAugust 1933October 1934Zhang TingyeOctober 1934June 1935Shang ZhenJune 1935July 1935Cheng KeJuly 1935November 1935Xiao ZhenyingNovember 1935August 1936Zhang ZizhongAugust 1936July 1937Li WentianJuly 1937August 1937
Japanese occupation (1937–1945) OfficeholderTerm of officeTook officeLeft officeGao Lingwei1 August 19377 January 1938Pan Yugui7 January 193828 April 1939Wen Shizhen28 April 193919 March 1943Wang Xugao19 March 194317 October 1943Li Pengtu17 October 194315 November 1943Zhang Renli15 November 19431 March 1945Zhou Diping1 March 194529 September 1945
1945–1949 OfficeholderTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeZhang Tingye29 September 1945November 1946KuomintangDu JianshiNovember 1946January 1949
People's Republic of China OfficeholderTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft office1Huang Jing15 August 1949August 1952Chinese Communist Party2Wu DeAugust 1952January 19553Huang Huoqing21 January 19554 July 19584Li Gengtao4 July 195828 December 19635Hu Zhaoheng28 December 19636 December 19676Xie Xuegong6 December 1967June 19787Lin HujiaJune 1978October 19788Chen WeidaOctober 197830 June 19809Hu Qili30 June 198021 May 198210Li Ruihuan21 May 1982October 198911Nie BichuOctober 198920 June 199312Zhang Lichang20 June 199330 May 199813Li ShenglinMay 1998December 200214Dai Xianglong30 December 200228 December 200715Huang Xingguo 28 January 200814 September 201616Wang Dongfeng6 November 201628 October 2017王东峰任天津市委副书记 何立峰不再担任17Zhang Guoqing2 January 20183 September 202018Liao Guoxun16 September 202027 April 202219Zhang Gong31 May 2022Incumbent
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