# Governor of Liaoning

The governor of Liaoning, officially the Governor of the Liaoning Provincial People's Government, is the head of Liaoning Province and leader of the Liaoning Provincial People's Government.
The governor is elected by the Liaoning 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 Liaoning 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 Liaoning Committee. The current governor is Wang Xinwei, who took office on 1 March 2025.

## List of governors
### 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 Liaoning Provincial People's Government |||||||
| 1 | | Du Zheheng (1910–1975) | August 1954 | February 1955 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Governor of the Liaoning Provincial People's Committee |||||||
| (1) | | Du Zheheng (1910–1975) | February 1955 | December 1958 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 2 | | Huang Oudong (1905–1993) | December 1958 | May 1968 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Director of the Liaoning Revolutionary Committee |||||||
| 3 | | Chen Xilian (1915–1999) | May 1968 | December 1973 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 4 | | Zeng Shaoshan (1914–1995) | September 1975 | September 1978 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 5 | | Ren Zhongyi (1914–2005) | September 1978 | January 1980 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Governor of the Liaoning Provincial People's Government |||||||
| 6 | | Chen Puru (1918–1998) | January 1980 | April 1982 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 7 | | Quan Shuren (1930–2008) | April 1982 | July 1986 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 8 | | Li Changchun (born 1944) | July 1986 | July 1990 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 9 | | Yue Qifeng (1931–2008) | July 1990 | July 1990 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 10 | | Wen Shizhen (1940–2021) | May 1994 | January 1998 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 11 | | Zhang Guoguang (born 1945) | January 1998 | January 2001 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 12 | | Bo Xilai (born 1949) | 24 February 2001 | 17 February 2004 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 13 | | Zhang Wenyue (born 1944) | 17 February 2004 | 22 December 2007 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 14 | | Chen Zhenggao (1952–2024) | 22 December 2007 | 5 May 2014 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 15 | | Li Xi (born 1953) | 5 May 2014 | 4 May 2015 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 16 | | Chen Qiufa (born 1954) | 4 May 2015 | 30 October 2017 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 17 | | Tang Yijun (born 1961) | 30 October 2017 | 11 May 2020 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 18 | | Liu Ning (born 1962) | 1 July 2020 | 19 October 2021 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 19 | | Li Lecheng (born 1965) | 20 October 2021 | 1 March 2025 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 20 | | Wang Xinwei (born 1967) | 1 March 2025 | Incumbent | Chinese Communist Party | |