# Governor of Shanxi

The governor of Shanxi, officially the Governor of the Shanxi Provincial People's Government, is the head of Shanxi Province and leader of the Shanxi Provincial People's Government.
The governor is elected by the Shanxi 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 Shanxi 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 Shanxi Committee. The current governor is Jin Xiangjun, who took office on 29 December 2022.

## 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 Shanxi Provincial People's Government |||||||
| 1 | | Cheng Zihua (1905–1991) | August 1949 | February 1951 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 2 | | Lai Ruoyu (1910–1958) | February 1951 | May 1952 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 3 | | Pei Lisheng (1906–2000) | May 1952 | February 1955 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Governor of the Shanxi Provincial People's Committee |||||||
| (3) | | Pei Lisheng (1906–2000) | February 1955 | April 1956 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 4 | | Wang Shiying (1905–1968) | April 1956 | November 1958 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 5 | | Wei Heng (1915–1967) | November 1958 | December 1965 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 6 | | Wang Qian (1917–2007) | December 1965 | January 1967 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Director of the Shanxi Revolutionary Committee |||||||
| 7 | | Liu Geping (1904–1992) | January 1967 | April 1971 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 8 | | Xie Zhenhua (1916–2011) | April 1971 | May 1975 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 9 | | Wang Qian (1917–2007) | May 1975 | December 1979 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| Governor of the Shanxi Provincial People's Government |||||||
| 10 | | Luo Guibo (1907–1995) | December 1979 | April 1983 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 10 | | Wang Senhao (1933–2022) | April 1983 | July 1992 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 11 | | Hu Fuguo (born 1937) | 23 July 1992 | 20 September 1993 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 12 | | Sun Wensheng (born 1942) | September 1993 | July 1999 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 13 | | Liu Zhenhua (born 1940) | July 1999 | January 2004 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 13 | | Zhang Baoshun (born 1950) | 19 February 2004 | 9 July 2005 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 14 | | Yu Youjun (born 1953) | 9 July 2005 | 3 September 2007 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 15 | | Meng Xuenong (born 1949) | 3 September 2007 | 14 September 2008 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 16 | | Wang Jun (born 1952) | 14 September 2008 | 19 December 2012 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 17 | | Li Xiaopeng (born 1959) | 29 January 2013 | 30 August 2016 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 18 | | Lou Yangsheng (born 1959) | 30 August 2016 | 5 December 2019 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 19 | | Lin Wu (born 1962) | 5 December 2019 | 4 June 2021 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 20 | | Lan Fo'an (born 1962) | 4 June 2021 | 29 December 2022 | Chinese Communist Party | |
| 21 | | Jin Xiangjun (born 1964) | 29 December 2022 | Incumbent | Chinese Communist Party | |