Mayor of Chongqing

The mayor of Chongqing, officially the Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, is the head of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. The mayor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and is the second-highest ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Chongqing Committee.

Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government
重庆市人民政府市长
National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Flag of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent Hu Henghua since 30 December 2021
Chongqing Municipal People's Government
Type	Head of government
Reports to	Chongqing Municipal People's Congress and its Standing Committee
Nominator	Presidium of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress
Appointer	Chongqing Municipal People's Congress
Term length	Five years, renewable
Inaugural holder	Chen Xilian
Formation	2 December 1949
Deputy	Deputy Mayors Secretary-General

Republic of China

No.	Officeholder		Term of office		Ref.
			Took office	Left office
Supervisor of the Chongqing Commercial Port Supervision Office
1		Yang Sen (1884–1977)	November 1921	August 1922
Supervisor of the Chongqing Municipal Government Office
2		Deng Xihou (1889–1964)	February 1923
3		Cheng Guodong (1879–1954)
4		Zhu Zongque (?–?)
Supervisor of the Chongqing Commercial Port Supervisory Office
5		Tang Shizun (1884–1950)	June 1926
6		Pan Wenhua (1886–1950)	July 1926	1 November 1927	[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing City Hall
(6)		Pan Wenhua (1886–1950)	1 November 1927	15 February 1929	[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal Government
(6)		Pan Wenhua (1886–1950)	15 February 1929	June 1935	[1]
7		Zhang Biguo (1891–1936)	24 June 1935	11 April 1936	[1]
8		Li Hongkun (1895–1957)	1936	July 1938	[1]
9		Jiang Zhicheng (1893–1949)	1 August 1938	5 May 1939	[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal Government (city directly under the Central Government)
10		He Guoguang (1885–1969)	15 May 1939	5 December 1939	[1]
11		K. C. Wu (1903–1984)	December 1939	16 December 1942	[1]
12		He Yaozu (1889–1961)	16 December 1942	November 1945	[1]
13		Zhang Dulun (1892–1958)	1 December 1945	April 1948	[1]
14		Yang Sen (1884–1977)	April 1948	30 November 1949	[1]

People's Republic of China

No.	Officeholder		Term of office		Political party	Ref.
			Took office	Left office
Director of the People's Liberation Army Military Control Commission of Chongqing Municipality
1		Zhang Jichun (1900–1968)	3 December 1949	?	Chinese Communist Party
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government
1		Chen Xilian (1915–1995)	2 December 1949	September 1950	Chinese Communist Party	[1]
2		Cao Diqiu (1909–1976)	December 1951	19 June 1954		[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (province-level city of Sichuan)
(2)		Cao Diqiu (1909–1976)	19 June 1954	January 1955	Chinese Communist Party	[1]
3		Ren Baige (1906–1986)	January 1955	July 1966		[1]
Director of the Chongqing Revolutionary Committee
4		Lan Yinong (1919–2008)	May 1968	December 1968	Chinese Communist Party	[1]
5		Duan Siying (1917–2007)	December 1968	1969		[1]
6		He Yunfeng (1922–2013)	1969	December 1973		[1]
7		Lu Dadong (1915–1998)	December 1973	1978		[1]
8		Qian Min (1915–2016)	May 1978	August 1978		[1]
9		Ding Changhe (born 1934)	1978	March 1980		[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (province-level city of Sichuan)
10		Yu Hanqing (1929–2011)	March 1980	May 1985	Chinese Communist Party	[1]
11		Xiao Yang (1929–1998)	May 1985	August 1988		[1]
12		Sun Tongchuan (born 1940)	August 1988	April 1993		[1]
13		Liu Zhizhong (born 1942)	May 1993	September 1996		[1]
–		Pu Haiqing (born 1941)	September 1996	June 1999		[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government
14		Pu Haiqing (born 1941)	19 June 1997	June 1999	Chinese Communist Party	[1]
15		Bao Xuding (born 1939)	June 1999	October 2002		[1]
16		Wang Hongju (born 1945)	January 2003 (acting from October 2002)	November 2009		[1]
17		Huang Qifan (born 1952)	30 November 2009	30 December 2016
18		Zhang Guoqing (born 1964)	30 December 2016	2 January 2018		[2]
19		Tang Liangzhi (born 1960)	2 January 2018	30 December 2021		[3]
20		Hu Henghua (born 1963)	30 December 2021	Incumbent		[4]

References

1. "25 Mayors of Chongqing" (in Chinese). People's Daily Online. 6 September 2007. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011.
2. "Chongqing mayor who survived China's biggest political storm of modern times resigns". South China Morning Post. 30 December 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
3. 唐良智任重庆市代理市长. thepaper.cn (in Chinese). 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
4. Zhu Jiabei (祝加贝) (30 December 2021). 胡衡华任重庆市代市长. sina (in Chinese). Retrieved 30 December 2021.