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. The current acting mayor is Zhu Zhongming, who took office on 4 September 2026.
List of mayors
Republic of China
OfficeholderTermTook officeLeft officeMayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government1Huang Fu7 July 192714 August 1927–Wu Zhenxiu15 August 192716 September 19272Zhang Dingfan17 September 192731 March 19293Zhang Qun1 April 192929 June 1930Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government(3)Zhang Qun1 July 19306 January 19324Wu Tiecheng7 January 193231 March 19375Yu Hung-chun1 April 193713 August 1945
Japanese occupation OfficeholderTermTook officeLeft officeMayor of the Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai1Su Xiwen5 December 193727 April 1938Supervisor of the Shanghai Municipal Great Way Office(1)Su Xiwen28 April 193815 October 1938Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government2Fu Xiaoan16 October 193811 October 1940–Su Xiwen11 October 194019 November 19403Chen Gongbo20 November 194011 November 1944–Wu Songgao12 November 194414 January 19454Zhou Fohai15 January 194412 September 1945
After World War II Officeholder Term PartyMayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government1Qian Dajun–Kuomintang2K. C. Wu–3Chen Liang––Zhao Zukang–
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.
Officeholder TermMayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government1Chen Yi–Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Committee(1)Chen Yi–2Ke Qingshi–3Cao Diqiu–Director of the Shanghai People's Commune Interim Committee4Zhang Chunqiao–Director of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee(4)Zhang Chunqiao–5Su Zhenhua–6Peng Chong–Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government(6)Peng Chong–7Wang Daohan–8Jiang Zemin–9Zhu Rongji–10Huang Ju–11Xu Kuangdi–12Chen Liangyu–13Han Zheng–14Yang Xiong–15Ying Yong–16Gong Zheng–17Zhu Zhongming–Incumbent
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