The mayor of Shenzhen, officially the Mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, is the head of Shenzhen Municipality and leader of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government.
The mayor is elected by the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress, and responsible to it and its Standing Committee. The mayor is a deputy 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 Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The mayor the second-highest-ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Shenzhen Committee. The current mayor is , who began serving as acting mayor on 24 August 2026.
After the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the first three mayors were all from Guangdong, including Wu Nansheng from Shantou, Liang Xiang from Kaiping, and Li Hao from Dianbai, Maoming. With the exception of Chen Rugui (whose native place was Lianjiang, Guangdong), all subsequent mayors of Shenzhen were from other provinces, with the largest number of people from Jiangsu, including Yu Youjun (Fengxian), Wang Rong (Binhai, acting), and Xu Qin (Lianyungang).
History The successive administrative heads of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, include the Chairman of the Shenzhen Revolutionary Committee and the Mayor of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. Shenzhen was relocated from the former Bao'an County on January 23, 1979, and was then under the dual leadership of Guangdong Province and Huiyang Prefecture. The State Council of China formally agreed to the relocation on March 5 of the same year. On April 2, the Huiyang Prefectural Committee appointed Jia Hua as the Deputy Secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chairman of the Shenzhen Revolutionary Committee, as the first administrative head of Shenzhen.
In November, Shenzhen was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, directly under the leadership of the Guangdong Provincial Revolutionary Committee. In March 1981, Shenzhen was upgraded to a sub-provincial city. In November, the State Council approved Shenzhen to be listed separately in the national plan and granted it economic management authority equivalent to that of the provincial level. In February 1992, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress granted the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress, its Standing Committee and the Municipal People's Government the power to formulate local laws and regulations.
List of mayors Name Native place Took office Left office1Jia HuaRugao, Jiangsu2 April 197912 June 19802Wu NanshengShantou, Guangdong12 June 19806 March 19813Liang XiangKaiping, Guangdong20 October 198112 August 19854Li HaoDianbai, Maoming, Guangdong12 August 198522 May 19905Zheng LiangyuWuxing, Huzhou, Zhejiang22 May 199027 December 199017 November 19926Li YouweiXinmin, Liaoning17 November 199223 May 19957Li ZibinHuludao, Liaoning23 May 199526 April 20008Yu YoujunFeng, Jiangsu17 June 200017 June 20039Li HongzhongChangle, Shandong28 February 20042 June 200510Xu ZonghengXiangtan, Hunan3 June 200512 June 2009ActingWang RongBinhai, Jiangsu12 June 20095 June 201011Xu QinLianyungang, Jiangsu5 June 201020 July 201712Chen RuguiLianjiang, Guangdong22 August 201724 April 202113Qin WeizhongYulin, Guangxi19 May 202124 August 202614Songzi, Hubei24 August 2026incumbent
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