# Mayor of Tianjin

The mayor of Tianjin, officially the Mayor of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, is the head of Tianjin Municipality and leader of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government.
The mayor is elected by the Tianjin 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. The mayor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The mayor the second-highest ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Tianjin Committee. The current mayor is Zhang Gong, who took office on 30 December 2021.

## List of mayors
### Republic of China
#### 1928–1937

| Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office | Ref. |
| Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office | Ref. |
| | Nan Guixin (1884–1966) | June 1928 | September 1928 | |
| | Cui Tingxian (1875–1942) | September 1928 | October 1930 | |
| | Zang Qifang (1894–1961) | October 1930 | April 1931 | |
| | Zhang Xueming (1908–1983) | April 1931 | October 1931 | |
| | Zhou Longguang (1885–?) | October 1931 | December 1932 | |
| | Yu Xuezhong (1890–1964) | December 1932 | August 1933 | |
| | Wang Tao (1866–1937) | August 1933 | October 1934 | |
| | Zhang Tingye (1890–1973) | October 1934 | June 1935 | |
| | Shang Zhen (1888–1978) | June 1935 | July 1935 | |
| | Cheng Ke (1878–1936) | July 1935 | November 1935 | |
| | Xiao Zhenying (1890–1947) | November 1935 | August 1936 | |
| | Zhang Zizhong (1891–1940) | August 1936 | July 1937 | |
| | Li Wentian (1894–1951) | July 1937 | August 1937 | |

#### Japanese occupation (1937–1945)

| Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office | Ref. |
| Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office | Ref. |
| | Gao Lingwei (1870–1940) | 1 August 1937 | 7 January 1938 | |
| | Pan Yugui (1884–1961) | 7 January 1938 | 28 April 1939 | |
| | Wen Shizhen (1877–1951) | 28 April 1939 | 19 March 1943 | |
| | Wang Xugao (1890–1951) | 19 March 1943 | 17 October 1943 | |
| | Li Pengtu (1898–?) | 17 October 1943 | 15 November 1943 | |
| | Zhang Renli (1900–1951) | 15 November 1943 | 1 March 1945 | |
| | Zhou Diping (?–?) | 1 March 1945 | 29 September 1945 | |

#### 1945–1949

| Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Ref. |
| Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office | Political party | Ref. |
| | Zhang Tingye (1890–1973) | 29 September 1945 | November 1946 | Kuomintang | |
| | Du Jianshi (1907–1989) | November 1946 | January 1949 | Kuomintang | |

### People's Republic of China

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Ref. |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office | Political party | Ref. |
| 1 | | Huang Jing (1912–1958) | 15 August 1949 | August 1952 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 2 | | Wu De (1913–1995) | August 1952 | January 1955 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 3 | | Huang Huoqing (1901–1999) | 21 January 1955 | 4 July 1958 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 4 | | Li Gengtao (1912–1974) | 4 July 1958 | 28 December 1963 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 5 | | Hu Zhaoheng (1915–1999) | 28 December 1963 | 6 December 1967 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 6 | | Xie Xuegong (1916–1993) | 6 December 1967 | June 1978 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 7 | | Lin Hujia (1916–2018) | June 1978 | October 1978 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 8 | | Chen Weida (1916–1990) | October 1978 | 30 June 1980 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 9 | | Hu Qili (born 1929) | 30 June 1980 | 21 May 1982 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 10 | | Li Ruihuan (born 1934) | 21 May 1982 | October 1989 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 11 | | Nie Bichu (1928–2018) | October 1989 | 20 June 1993 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 12 | | Zhang Lichang (1939–2008) | 20 June 1993 | 30 May 1998 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 13 | | Li Shenglin (born 1946) | May 1998 | December 2002 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 14 | | Dai Xianglong (born 1944) | 30 December 2002 | 28 December 2007 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 15 | | Huang Xingguo (born 1954) | 28 January 2008 (acting from 28 December 2007) | 14 September 2016 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 16 | | Wang Dongfeng (born 1958) | 6 November 2016 (acting from 14 September 2016) | 28 October 2017 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 17 | | Zhang Guoqing (born 1964) | 2 January 2018 | 3 September 2020 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 18 | | Liao Guoxun (1963–2022) | 16 September 2020 (acting from 3 September 2020) | 27 April 2022 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 19 | | Zhang Gong (born 1961) | 31 May 2022 | Incumbent | Chinese Communist Party | |