The Chairperson of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Government is the head of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and leader of the People's Government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The chairperson is elected by the People's Congress of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and responsible to it and its Standing Committee. The chairperson is a provincial level official and is responsible for the overall decision-making of the regional government. The chairperson is assisted by an executive vice chairperson as well as several vice chairpersons. The chairperson generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The chairperson is the second-highest-ranking official in the autonomous region after the secretary of the CCP Ningxia Hui Committee. The government chairman is always a Hui. The current chairperson is Zhang Yupu, who took office on 9 May 2022.
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People's Republic of China OfficeholderTerm of officePartyTook officeLeft officeChairperson of the Ningxia Provincial People's Government1Pan ZiliOctober 1949October 1951Chinese Communist Party2Xing ZhaotangOctober 1951August 1954Merged into Gansu from 1954 to 1958Chairperson of the Preparatory Committee of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region3Liu GepingJune 1958October 1958Chinese Communist PartyChairperson of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Committee3Liu GepingOctober 1958September 1960Chinese Communist Party4Yang JingrenOctober 1960April 1968Director of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Revolutionary Committee5Kang JianminApril 1968January 1977Chinese Communist Party6Huo ShilianJanuary 1977February 1979Chairperson of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Government7Ma XinFebruary 1979February 1983Chinese Communist Party8Hei BoliFebruary 1983July 19869Bai LichenJuly 1986September 199710Ma QizhiDecember 1997April 200311Wang Zhengwei3 April 20033 April 200812Liu Hui26 March 20133 July 201613Xian Hui3 July 20169 May 202214Zhang Yupu9 May 2022Incumbent
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