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governor of Zhejiang

{{Infobox Political post

| post = Governor

| body = the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government

| insignia = File:National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (2).svg

| insigniasize = 100px

| insigniacaption = National Emblem of China

| flag = Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg

| flagcaption = Flag of China

| flagsize = 125px

| image =

| imagesize =

| incumbent = Liu Jie

| incumbentsince = 18 December 2024

| acting =

| style =

| status = Provincial and ministerial-level official

| residence =

| termlength = Five years, renewable

| constituting_instrument =

| precursor =

| inaugural = Tan Zhenlin

| formation = August 1949

| deputy = Deputy Governors
Secretary-General

| salary =

| website =

| appointer = Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress

| native_name = {{lang|zh-hans|浙江省人民政府省长}}

| department = Zhejiang Provincial People's Government

| reports_to = Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress and its Standing Committee

| type = Governor

| nominator = Presidium of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress

}}

The governor of Zhejiang, officially the Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, is the head of Zhejiang Province and leader of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government.

The governor is elected by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress, and responsible to it and its Standing Committee. The governor is a provincial level official and is responsible for the overall decision-making of the provincial government. The governor is assisted by an executive vice governor as well as several vice governors. The governor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The governor is the second highest-ranking official in the province after the secretary of the CCP Zhejiang Committee.{{Cite web |title=Decoding Chinese Politics: Provincial Leaders |url=https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/decoding-chinese-politics?policy=provincial-leaders&group=organizations&size=rank&connection=personal |access-date=5 March 2025 |website=Asia Society}} The current governor is Liu Jie, who took office on 18 December 2024.

Leader offices

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!Title

!Existence

Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government

|1949–1955

Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Committee

|1955–1967

Director of the Committee for the People's Liberation Army Control of Zhejiang Province

|1967–1968

Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Revolutionary Committee

|1968–1979

Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government

|1979–present

List of governors

= Republic of China =

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== Military governors ==

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!No.

!Portrait

! width="150px" |Name

(Birth–Death)

! colspan="2" width="200px" |Term of office

! width="100px" |Political party

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! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |1

| rowspan="2" align="center" |120x120px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Tang Shouqian

湯壽潛

(1856–1917)

|4 November 1911 (nominated on 4 November 1911){{cite web |title=Military and Civilian Governors of Zhejiang 1911-1949 |url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Rep/governors-zhejiang.html |access-date=2 November 2018 |website=Chinaknowledge}}

|1 January 1912

|

colspan="4" |Served as provincial military governor (dudu 都督)
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#FFCC00; color:black;" |2

| rowspan="2" align="center" |113x113px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Jiang Zungui

蔣尊簋

(1882–1931)

|12 July 1912 (nominated on 16 January 1912)

|23 July 1912

|Unity Party

colspan="4" |Also served as head of the civil government during his tenure as military governor.
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#04770A; color:white;" |3

| rowspan="2" align="center" |100x100px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhu Rui

朱瑞

(1883–1916)

|23 July 1912

|11 April 1916

|Republican Party

colspan="4" |Served as provincial general (jiangjun 將軍) from 30 June 1914; also served as head of the civil government 23 July 1912 – 10 September 1913. Eventually fled the province.
bgcolor=""

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |4

| rowspan="2" align="center" |133x133px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Qu Yingguang

屈映光

(1881–1973)

|14 April 1916 (nominated on 12 April 1916)

|5 May 1916

|

colspan="4" |Acting military governor. Also served as de facto head of the civil government from 10 September 1913 to 6 July 1916, and as "pacification commissioner" (xun'anshi 巡按使) from 25 May 1914
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |5

| rowspan="2" align="center" |115x115px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Lü Gongwang

呂公望

(1879–1954)

|6 July 1916 (nominated on 5 May 1916)

|1 January 1917

|

colspan="4" |Also served as de facto head of the civil government, namely "provincial head" (shengzhang 省長) during his tenure.
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |6

| rowspan="2" align="center" |117x117px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Yang Shande

楊善德

(1873–1919)

|1 January 1917

|13 August 1919

|Anhui clique

colspan="4" |Died in office.
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |7

| rowspan="2" align="center" |103x103px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Lu Yongxiang

盧永祥

Lú Yǒngxiáng

(1867–1933)

|14 August 1919

|20 September 1924

|Anhui clique

colspan="4" |Served as "provincial superintendent" (duban 督辦) from 20 June 1922.
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |8

| rowspan="2" align="center" |104x104px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Sun Chuanfang

孫傳芳

Sūn Chuánfāng

(1885–1935)

|20 September 1924

|19 December 1926

|Zhili clique

colspan="4" |Sun initially served as "provincial supervisor" (duli 督理), and as "provincial superintendent" (duban 督辦) from 16 January 1925. He mostly ruled through subordinates, most notably appointing Lu Xiangting as "military commander-in-chief" (de facto military governor) in January 1926.{{sfnp|Jordan|1976|p=132}}
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |(9)

| rowspan="2" align="center" |

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Lu Xiangting

|25 January 1926{{sfnp|Jordan|1976|p=132}}

| ?

|Zhili clique

colspan="4" |Served as "military commander-in-chief" of the province.{{sfnp|Jordan|1976|p=132}}
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |10

| rowspan="2" align="center" |

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Jiang Zungui

|19 December 1926

|29 December 1926

|Zhili clique

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |11

| rowspan="2" align="center" |

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Meng Zhaoyue

|29 December 1926

|17 February 1927

|Zhili clique

colspan="4" |

== Civil governors ==

class="wikitable"

!No.

!Portrait

! width="150px" |Name

(Birth–Death)

! colspan="2" width="200px" |Term of office

! width="100px" |Political party

bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |1

| rowspan="2" align="center" |115x115px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Lü Gongwang

呂公望

(1879–1954)

|1916

|January 1917

|

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |2

| rowspan="2" align="center" |119x119px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Qi Yaoshan

齊耀珊

(1865–1954)

|January 1917

|24 June 1920

|

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |3

| rowspan="2" align="center" |95x95px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Shen Jinjian

沈金鑒

(1875–1924)

|24 June 1920

|29 October 1922

|

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" |4

| rowspan="2" align="center" |115x115px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhang Zaiyang

張載揚

(1874–1945)

|29 October 1922

|?

|

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! valign="bottom" style="background:#CD853F; color:white; border-bottom:1px solid #CD853F;" |5

| rowspan="2" align="center" |114x114px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Xia Chao

夏超

(1882–1926)

| rowspan="2" |1924

| rowspan="2" |23 October 1926

|Zhili clique

bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |

|NRA

bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! valign="bottom" style="background:#CD853F; color:white; border-bottom:1px solid #CD853F;" |6

| rowspan="2" align="center" |128x128px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Chen Yi

陳儀

Chén Yí

(1883–1950)

| rowspan="2" |October 1925

| rowspan="2" |July 1927

|Zhili clique

bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |

|NRA

== Chairperson of the Provincial Government ==

class="wikitable"

!No.

!Portrait

! width="150px" |Name

(Birth–Death)

! colspan="2" width="200px" |Term of office

! width="100px" |Political party

bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |1

| rowspan="2" align="center" |104x104px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhang Renjie

張靜江

(1877–1950)

|27 July 1927

|5 October 1927

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |2

| rowspan="2" align="center" |95x95px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |He Yingqin

何應欽

Hé Yìngqīn

(1890–1987)

|5 October 1927

|7 November 1928

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |{{small|(1)}}

| rowspan="2" align="center" |104x104px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhang Renjie

張靜江

(1877–1950)

|7 November 1928

|4 December 1930

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |3

| rowspan="2" align="center" |122x122px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhang Nanxian

張難先

(1873–1968)

|4 December 1930

|15 December 1931

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |4

| rowspan="2" align="center" |112x112px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Lu Diping

魯滌平

(1887–1935)

|15 December 1931

|12 December 1934

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |5

| rowspan="2" align="center" |100x100px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Huang Shaohong

黃紹竑

(1895–1966)

|12 December 1934

|25 July 1936

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |6

| rowspan="2" align="center" |115x115px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Bai Chongxi

白崇禧

(1893–1966)

|25 July 1936

|6 September 1936

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |Refused to take office; Director of Civil Affairs Department Xu Qingfu acted as chairperson.
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |{{small|(5)}}

| rowspan="2" align="center" |100x100px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Huang Shaohong

黃紹竑

(1895–1966)

|6 September 1936

|2 December 1936

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |7

| rowspan="2" align="center" |140x140px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhu Jiahua

朱家驊

Zhū Jiāhuá

(1893–1963)

|12 December 1934

|26 November 1937

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |{{small|(5)}}

| rowspan="2" align="center" |100x100px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Huang Shaohong

黃紹竑

(1895–1966)

|26 November 1937

|26 March 1946

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |8

| rowspan="2" align="center" |123x123px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Shen Honglie

沈鴻烈

(1882–1969)

|26 March 1946

|22 June 1948

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |9

| rowspan="2" align="center" |128x128px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Chen Yi

陳儀

Chén Yí

(1883–1950)

|22 June 1948

|21 February 1949

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |10

| rowspan="2" align="center" |122x122px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Zhou Yan

周喦

(1895–1953)

|21 February 1949

|6 December 1949

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |11

| rowspan="2" align="center" |

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Shi Jue

石覺

(1908–1986)

|7 December 1949

|13 May 1950

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |
bgcolor="#EEEEEE"

! rowspan="2" style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" |12

| rowspan="2" align="center" |123x123px

| rowspan="2" align="center" |Hu Zongnan

胡宗南

(1896–1962)

|19 October 1950

|23 July 1953

|Kuomintang

colspan="4" |Evacuated to Taiwan 23 July 1953.

= People's Republic of China =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! rowspan="2" |{{Abbr|No.|Number}}

! rowspan="2" width="130" |Name

{{small|(Birth–Death)}}

! colspan="2" |Term of office

! rowspan="2" |Political party

Took office

!Left office

colspan="5" |Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government
1

|Tan Zhenlin

{{small|(1902–1983)}}

|August 1949

|January 1955

|Chinese Communist Party

colspan="5" |Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Committee
2

|Sha Wenhan

{{small|(1908–1964)}}

|January 1955

|November 1957

| rowspan="3" |Chinese Communist Party

2

|Huo Shilian

{{small|(1909–1996)}}

|November 1957

|January 1958

3

|Zhou Jianren

{{small|(1888–1984)}}

|January 1958

|January 1967

colspan="5" |Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Military Control Committee of the People's Liberation Army
4

|Long Qian

{{small|(1913–1992)}}

|January 1967

|August 1967

| rowspan="2" |Chinese Communist Party

5

|Nan Ping

{{small|(1918–1989)}}

|August 1967

|March 1968

colspan="5" |Director of the Zhejiang Revolutionary Committee
(5)

|Nan Ping

{{small|(1918–1989)}}

|March 1968

|May 1973

| rowspan="3" |Chinese Communist Party

6

|Tan Qilong

{{small|(1913–2003)}}

|May 1973

|February 1977

7

|Tie Ying

{{small|(1916–2009)}}

|February 1977

|December 1979

colspan="5" |Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government
8

|Li Fengping

{{small|(1912–2008)}}

|December 1979

|April 1983

| rowspan="15" |Chinese Communist Party

9

|Xue Ju

{{small|(1922–2024)}}

|April 1983

|January 1988

10

|Shen Zulun

{{small|(1931–2023)}}

|February 1988{{cite web |title=Biography of Shen Zulun |url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Shen_Zulun%7C1707 |accessdate=28 December 2010 |publisher=China Vitae}}

|January 1988

11

|Ge Hongsheng

{{small|(1931–2020)}}

|November 1990{{cite web |date=2020-02-01 |title=浙江省原省长葛洪升逝世，享年90岁，曾任宁波市委书记 |url=http://news.hangzhou.com.cn/zjnews/content/2020-02/01/content_7668577.htm?open_source=weibo_search |accessdate=2020-02-01 |publisher=news.hangzhou.com.cn}}

|March 1991

12

|Wan Xueyuan

{{small|(born 1941)}}

|March 1991

|April 1997

13

|Chai Songyue

{{small|(born 1941)}}

|April 1997{{cite web |title=Biography of Chai Songyue |url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Chai_Songyue%7C692 |accessdate=27 December 2010 |publisher=China Vitae}}

|October 2002

14

|Xi Jinping

{{small|(born 1953)}}

|October 2002

|January 2003

15

|Lü Zushan

{{small|(born 1946)}}

|January 2003{{cite web |script-title=zh:吕祖善 |trans-title=Lü Zushan |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2003-02/20/content_737758.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040415030544/http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2003-02/20/content_737758.htm |archive-date=April 15, 2004 |accessdate=2014-09-16 |language=Chinese |agency=Xinhua News Agency}}

|August 2011

16

|Xia Baolong

{{small|(born 1952)}}

|16 January 2012

|21 December 2012

17

|Li Qiang

{{small|(born 1959)}}

|21 December 2012{{cite news |date=January 30, 2012 |title=夏宝龙当选浙江人大常委会主任 李强当选省长 |trans-title=Xia Baolong was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress and Li Qiang was elected Governor |url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2013-01-30/181726161338.shtml |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=Sina.com}}

|4 July 2016

18

|Che Jun

{{small|(born 1955)}}

|4 July 2016{{cite web |title=车俊被任命为浙江省副省长代理省长 |url=http://renshi.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0704/c139617-28523291.html |accessdate=2016-07-04 |publisher=people.cn}}

|28 April 2017

19

|Yuan Jiajun

{{small|(born 1962)}}

|28 April 2017{{cite web |script-title=zh:袁家軍任浙江省副省長、代省長，此前擔任浙江省委副書記 |url=http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1673231 |access-date=2017-04-28 |work=thepaper}}

|4 September 2020

20

|Zheng Shanjie

{{small|(born 1961)}}

|4 September 2020{{cite news |date=29 September 2020 |title=Zheng Shanjie elected governor of east China's Zhejiang Province |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/29/c_139406275.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031010852/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/29/c_139406275.htm |archive-date=31 October 2020 |access-date=27 October 2020 |work=Xinhua}}

|30 September 2021

21

|Wang Hao

{{small|(born 1963)}}

|30 September 2021{{cite news |author1=Zhuang Yu ({{lang|zh|庄彧}}) |date=30 September 2021 |script-title=zh:王浩任浙江省代省长 郑栅洁辞去省长职务 |url=http://district.ce.cn/newarea/sddy/202109/30/t20210930_36963868.shtml |access-date=30 September 2021 |work=ce.cn |language=zh}}

|18 December 2024

21

|Liu Jie

{{small|(born 1970)}}

|18 December 2024

|Incumbent

References

Sources

  • {{cite book

|last=Jordan

|first=Donald A.

|chapter=Provincialism within the Chinese National Revolution: The Case of Chekiang, 1926–1927

|editor1=F. Gilbert Chan

|editor2=Thomas H. Etzold

|title=China in the 1920s. Nationalism and Revolution

|language=en

|url=https://archive.org/details/chinain1920snati0000unse

|date=1976

|publisher=Franklin Watts

|location=New York City, London

|isbn=0-531-05383-0

|url-access=registration

}}

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