# Governor of Jiangsu

The governor of Jiangsu, officially the Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, is the head of Jiangsu Province and leader of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government.
The governor is elected by the Jiangsu 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 Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The governor the second-highest ranking official in the province after the secretary of the CCP Jiangsu Committee. The current governor is Xu Kunlin, who took office on 19 October 2021.

## List of governors
### Republic of China
#### Beiyang government

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
| Military Governor |||||
| 1 | | Cheng Dequan (1860–1930) | 5 November 1911 | 1 January 1912 |
| 2 | | Zhuang Yunkuan (1867–1932) | 1 January 1912 | 13 April 1912 |
| 3 | | Cheng Dequan (1860–1930) | 13 April 1912 | 3 September 1913 |
| 4 | | Zhang Xun (1854–1923) | 3 September 1913 | 16 December 1913 |
| 5 | | Feng Guozhang (1859–1919) | 16 December 1913 | 1 August 1917 |
| 6 | | Li Chun (1867–1920) | 6 August 1917 | 12 October 1920 |
| 7 | | Qi Xieyuan (1885–1946) | 15 October 1920 | 11 December 1924 |
| 8 | | Han Guojun (1857–1942) | 11 December 1924 | 6 January 1925 |
| 9 | | Lu Yongxiang (1867–1933) | 16 January 1925 | August 1925 |
| 10 | | Zheng Qian (1876–1929) | August 1925 | 29 August 1925 |
| 11 | | Yang Yuting (1886–1929) | 29 August 1925 | 25 November 1925 |
| 12 | | Sun Chuanfang (1885–1935) | 25 November 1925 | 24 March 1927 |
| Civilian Governor |||||
| 1 | | Ying Dehong (1876–1919) | 19 November 1912 | 6 September 1913 |
| 2 | | Han Guojun (1857–1942) | 9 September 1913 | 15 July 1914 |
| 3 | | Qi Yaolin (1862–1949) | 15 July 1914 | 18 September 1920 |
| 4 | | Wang Hu (1865–1933) | 18 September 1920 | 15 June 1922 |
| 5 | | Han Guojun (1857–1942) | 15 June 1922 | 14 February 1925 |
| 6 | | Zheng Qian (1876–1929) | 14 February 1925 | 1 December 1925 |
| 7 | | Chen Taoyi (1881–1946) | 1 December 1925 | 24 December 1926 |
| 8 | | Xu Dingkang (1876–1938) | 24 December 1926 | 24 March 1927 |

#### Nationalist government

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
| Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government |||||
| 1 | | Niu Yongjian (1870–1965) | 1 November 1927 | 17 March 1930 |
| 2 | | Ye Chucang (1887–1946) | 17 March 1930 | 15 December 1931 |
| 3 | | Gu Zhutong (1893–1987) | 15 December 1931 | 3 October 1933 |
| 4 | | Chen Guofu (1892–1951) | 3 October 1933 | 26 November 1937 |
| 5 | | Gu Zhutong (1893–1987) | 26 November 1937 | 13 October 1939 |
| 6 | | Han Deqin (1892–1988) | 12 May 1938 | 10 January 1945 |
| 7 | | Wang Maogong (1891–1961) | 10 January 1945 | 2 September 1948 |
| 8 | | Ding Zhipan (1894–1988) | 2 September 1948 | 21 May 1950 |

#### Japanese occupation

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | | Chen Zemin (1881–1951) | 30 March 1940 | 20 June 1940 |
| 2 | | Gao Guanwu (1892–1957) | 20 June 1940 | 20 January 1943 |
| 3 | | Li Shiqun (1905–1943) | 20 January 1943 | 9 September 1943 |
| 4 | | Chen Qun (1890–1945) | 9 September 1943 | 2 November 1944 |
| 5 | | Ren Yuandao (1890–1980) | 2 November 1944 | 3 May 1945 |
| 6 | | Xiang Zhizhuang (1894–1946) | 3 May 1945 | 15 August 1945 |

### People's Republic of China

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office | Party | Ref. |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office | Party | Ref. |
| Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government |||||||
| 1 | | Tan Zhenlin (1902–1983) | August 1949 | January 1955 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Committee |||||||
| 2 | | Hui Yuyu (1909–1989) | August 1957 | 1964 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 3 | | Du Ping (1908–1999) | 1964 | February 1968 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Director of the Jiangsu Revolutionary Committee |||||||
| 4 | | Xu Shiyou (1906–1985) | February 1968 | 1973 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 5 | | Peng Chong (1915–2010) | 1973 | February 1977 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 6 | | Xu Jiatun (1916–2016) | February 1977 | December 1979 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government |||||||
| 7 | | Hui Yuyu (1909–1989) | January 1980 | December 1981 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 8 | | Han Peixin (1921–2017) | December 1981 | May 1983 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 9 | | Gu Xiulian (born 1936) | May 1983 | April 1989 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 10 | | Chen Huanyou (born 1934) | April 1989 | September 1994 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 11 | | Zheng Silin (1940–2022) | September 1994 | September 1998 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 12 | | Ji Yunshi (born 1945) | September 1998 | December 2002 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 13 | | Liang Baohua (born 1945) | December 2002 | January 2008 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 14 | | Luo Zhijun (1951–2023) | 4 January 2008 | 8 December 2010 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 15 | | Li Xueyong (born 1950) | 8 December 2010 | 30 November 2015 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 16 | | Shi Taifeng (born 1956) | 28 January 2016 (acting from 30 November 2015) | 31 May 2017 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 17 | | Wu Zhenglong (born 1964) | 31 May 2017 | 19 October 2021 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 18 | | Xu Kunlin (born 1965) | 19 October 2021 | Incumbent | Chinese Communist Party | |