# Mayor of Shanghai

The mayor of Shanghai, officially the Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, is the head of Shanghai Municipality and leader of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.
The mayor is elected by the Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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 Shanghai Committee. The current mayor is Gong Zheng, who took office on 23 March 2020.

## List of mayors
### Republic of China

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government |||||
| 1 | | Huang Fu (1883–1936) | 7 July 1927 | 14 August 1927 |
| – | | Wu Zhenxiu (1883–1966) | 15 August 1927 | 16 September 1927 |
| 2 | | Zhang Dingfan (1891–1945) | 17 September 1927 | 31 March 1929 |
| 3 | | Zhang Qun (1889–1990) | 1 April 1929 | 29 June 1930 |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government |||||
| (3) | | Zhang Qun (1889–1990) | 1 July 1930 | 6 January 1932 |
| 4 | | Wu Tiecheng (1893–1953) | 7 January 1932 | 31 March 1937 |
| 5 | | Yu Hung-chun (1898–1960) | 1 April 1937 | 13 August 1945 |

#### Japanese occupation

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office |
| Mayor of the Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai |||||
| 1 | | Su Xiwen (1889–1945) | 5 December 1937 | 27 April 1938 |
| Supervisor of the Shanghai Municipal Great Way Office |||||
| (1) | | Su Xiwen (1889–1945) | 28 April 1938 | 15 October 1938 |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Special Municipal Government |||||
| 2 | | Fu Xiaoan (1872–1940) | 16 October 1938 | 11 October 1940 |
| – | | Su Xiwen (1889–1945) | 11 October 1940 | 19 November 1940 |
| 3 | | Chen Gongbo (1892–1946) | 20 November 1940 | 11 November 1944 |
| – | | Wu Songgao (1898–1953) | 12 November 1944 | 14 January 1945 |
| 4 | | Zhou Fohai (1897–1948) | 15 January 1944 | 12 September 1945 |

#### After World War II

| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| No. | Officeholder | Officeholder | Took office | Left office | Political party |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government ||||||
| 1 | | Qian Dajun (1893–1982) | 12 September 1945 | 19 May 1946 | Kuomintang |
| 2 | | K. C. Wu (1903–1984) | 20 May 1946 | 30 April 1949 | Kuomintang |
| 3 | | Chen Liang (1896–1994) | 1 May 1949 | 24 May 1949 | Kuomintang |
| – | | Zhao Zukang (1900–1995) | 24 May 1949 | 28 May 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. |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government |||||||
| 1 | | Chen Yi (1901–1972) | 28 May 1949 | February 1955 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Committee |||||||
| (1) | | Chen Yi (1901–1972) | February 1955 | November 1958 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 2 | | Ke Qingshi (1902–1965) | November 1958 | April 1965 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 3 | | Cao Diqiu (1909–1976) | November 1965 | February 1967 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Director of the Shanghai People's Commune Interim Committee |||||||
| 4 | | Zhang Chunqiao (1917–2005) | February 1967 | February 1967 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Director of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee |||||||
| (4) | | Zhang Chunqiao (1917–2005) | February 1967 | October 1976 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 5 | | Su Zhenhua (1912–1979) | October 1976 | January 1979 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 6 | | Peng Chong (1915–2010) | January 1979 | December 1979 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government |||||||
| (6) | | Peng Chong (1915–2010) | December 1979 | March 1980 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 7 | | Wang Daohan (1915–2005) | April 1981 | July 1985 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 8 | | Jiang Zemin (1926–2022) | July 1985 | April 1988 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 9 | | Zhu Rongji (born 1928) | April 1988 | April 1991 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 10 | | Huang Ju (1938–2007) | April 1991 | February 1995 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 11 | | Xu Kuangdi (born 1936) | February 1995 | December 2001 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 12 | | Chen Liangyu (born 1944) | December 2001 | February 2003 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 13 | | Han Zheng (born 1955) | February 2003 | 26 December 2012 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 14 | | Yang Xiong (1953–2021) | 26 December 2012 | 17 January 2017 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 15 | | Ying Yong (born 1957) | 20 January 2017 | 13 February 2020 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 16 | | Gong Zheng (born 1960) | 23 March 2020 | Incumbent | Chinese Communist Party | |