The mayor of Beijing, officially the Mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, is the head of Beijing Municipality and leader of the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
The mayor is elected by the Beijing 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. They generally serve as the deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The mayor is the second-highest-ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Beijing Committee. The current mayor is Yin Yong, who took office on 28 October 2022.
List of mayors
Republic of China OfficeholderTerm of officeTook officeLeft officeGovernor of the Shuntian Prefecture1Ding Naiyang1 January 191224 December 19122Zhang Guangjian24 December 191219 September 19133Wang Zhixin16 October 191323 March 19144Shen Jinjian23 March 19141914Capital Administrative Officier(4)Shen Jinjian1914September 19155Wang Da26 September 19153 August 19206Wang Hu3 August 192018 September 19207Sun Zhenjia18 September 192019 May 19228Liu Menggeng19 May 19225 November 19249Wang Zhixiang5 November 192431 December 192410Xue Dubi31 December 19249 October 192511Liu Ji20 October 1925May 192612Li Yuan4 September 192624 September 192713Zhang Jixin24 September 19273 June 1928–Li Shengpei4 June 192825 June 1928Mayor of the Beiping Special Municipal Government–He Chengjun25 June 192813 July 192814He Qigong13 July 192812 June 192915Chang Yin-wu12 June 192927 February 1931–Wang TaoOctober 1930March 193116Zhou Dawen27 February 1931April 1931Mayor of the Beijing Municipal Government–Hu RuoyuApril 1931June 1931(16)Zhou DawenApril 193116 June 193317Yuan Liang16 June 19331 November 193518Song Zheyuan1 November 19358 November 193519Qin Dechun8 November 193528 July 193720Zhang Zizhong28 July 19376 August 1937
Japanese occupation OfficeholderTerm of officeTook officeLeft officeMayor of the Beiping Local Maintenance Committee and the Mayor of the Beijing Local Maintenance Committee1Jiang Chaozong6 August 193717 December 1937Mayor of the Beijing Special Municipal Government(1)Jiang Chaozong1 January 193810 January 19382Yu Jinhe10 January 193813 January 1938Mayor of Beijing Special Municipality(2)Yu Jinhe13 January 19389 February 1943–Su Tiren19419 February 19433Liu Yushu9 February 19431943Mayor of the Beijing Special Municipal Government (3)Liu Yushu194320 February 19454Xu Xiuzhi20 February 194516 August 1945
After World War II OfficeholderTerm of officeTook officeLeft officeMayor of the Beijing Municipal Government1Xiong Bin16 August 194515 July 19462He Siyuan15 July 1946July 19483Liu YaozhangJuly 19484 February 1949
People's Republic of China OfficeholderTerm of officePolitical partyTook officeLeft officeMayor of the Beiping Municipal People's Government1Ye Jianying8 December 19489 September 1949Chinese Communist Party2Nie Rongzhen9 September 194930 September 1949Mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Government(2)Nie Rongzhen30 September 194926 February 1951Chinese Communist Party3Peng Zhen26 February 1951August 1954Mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Committee(3)Peng ZhenAugust 195423 May 1966Chinese Communist Party4Wu De23 May 196620 April 1967Director of the Beijing Revolutionary Committee5Xie Fuzhi20 April 196726 March 1972Chinese Communist Party6Wu DeMay 19729 October 19787Lin Hujia9 October 197813 December 1978Mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Government (7)Lin Hujia13 December 197825 January 1981Chinese Communist Party8Jiao Ruoyu25 January 198124 March 19839Chen Xitong24 March 1983February 199310Li QiyanFebruary 1993October 199611Jia QinglinFebruary 1997February 199912Liu QiFebruary 1999January 200313Meng Xuenong19 January 200320 April 200314Wang QishanFebruary 200430 November 200715Guo JinlongJanuary 200825 July 201216Wang Anshun28 January 201331 October 201617Cai Qi20 January 201727 May 201718Chen Jining30 January 201828 October 202219Yin Yong19 January 2023Incumbent
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