Meng Fanli

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| office1 = Party Secretary of Shenzhen

| term_start1 = 18 April 2022

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| deputy1 = Qin Weizhong

| predecessor1 = Wang Weizhong

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| office2 = Party Secretary of Baotou

| term_start2 = September 2020

| term_end2 = April 2022

| predecessor2 = {{ill|Zhang Yuanzhong|zh|张院忠}}

| successor2 = TBA

| office3 = Mayor of Qingdao

| term_start3 = April 2017

| term_end3 = November 2020

| predecessor3 = Zhang Xinqi

| successor3 = {{ill|Zhao Haozhi|zh|赵豪志}}

| office4 = Communist Party Secretary of Yantai

| term_start4 = May 2015

| term_end4 = March 2017

| predecessor4 = {{ill|Zhang Jiangting|zh|张江汀}}

| successor4 = Wang Hao

| name = Meng Fanli

| native_name = 孟凡利

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965|09}}

| birth_place = Linyi County, Shandong, China

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| party = Chinese Communist Party

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| alma_mater = Shandong University of Finance and Economics
Nankai University
Tianjin University of Finance and Economics

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Meng Fanli ({{zh|c=孟凡利|p=Mèng Fánlì}}; born September 1965) is a Chinese politician who is the current Party Secretary of Shenzhen and deputy party secretary of Guangdong, in office since April 2022. He is a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress.

Biography

Meng was born in Linyi County (now Linyi), Shandong, in September 1965. In 1982, he entered Shandong University of Finance and Economics, majoring in business accounting. After graduating in 1986, he taught at the university. He received his master's degree in western accounting in 1995 from Nankai University and doctor's degree in accounting in 1998 from Tianjin University of Finance and Economics.

Meng joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1986, and got involved in politics in June 2000, when he was appointed deputy director of Shandong Provincial Department of Finance. In July 2005, he became deputy party secretary of Shandong Luxin Investment Holding Co., Ltd., rising to party secretary in July 2009. In March 2013, he became director of Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce, but having held the position for only three months. He served as mayor of Yantai from 2013 to 2015, and party secretary, the top political position in the city, from 2015 to 2017. It would be his first job as "first-in-charge" of a city. In March 2017, he was promoted to acting mayor of Qingdao, confirmed in April.{{cite news|author1=Gao Zhongye ({{lang|zh|高忠业}})|url=http://qingdao.dzwww.com/xinwen/qingdaonews/201703/t20170327_15690616.htm |script-title=zh:孟凡利被任命为青岛市代市长 |work=qingdao.dzwww.com |date=27 March 2017 |access-date=19 April 2022 |language=zh}}

In September 2020, he was transferred to north China's Inner Mongolia, where he was appointed party secretary of Baotou and was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Inner Mongolia Regional Committee, the region's top authority.{{cite news|author1=Yi Yi ({{lang|zh|伊一}})|url=http://district.ce.cn/newarea/sddy/202009/29/t20200929_35843306.shtml |script-title=zh:青岛市长孟凡利调任内蒙古党委常委接替张院忠任包头市委书记 |work=ce.cn |date=29 September 2020 |access-date=19 April 2021 |language=zh}} In November 2021, he became deputy party secretary of Inner Mongolia.

In April 2022, he was dispatched to south China's Guangdong province and appointed Party Secretary of Shenzhen and deputy party secretary of Guangdong.{{cite news|author1=Zhong Yuhao ({{lang|zh|钟煜豪}})|url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_17689832 |script-title=zh:孟凡利任广东省委副书记、深圳市委书记 |work=thepaper |date=19 April 2021 |access-date=19 April 2021 |language=zh}}