Mayor of Chongqing explained

Post:	Mayor
Body:	the Chongqing Municipal People's Government
Insignia:	File:National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (2).svg
Insigniasize:	100px
Insigniacaption:	National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent:	Hu Henghua
Incumbentsince:	30 December 2021
Termlength:	Five years, renewable
Deputy:	Deputy Mayors
Appointer:	Chongqing Municipal People's Congress
Native Name:	Chinese: 重庆市人民政府市长
Department:	Chongqing Municipal People's Government
Reports To:	Chongqing Municipal People's Congress and its Standing Committee
Type:	Head of government
Nominator:	Presidium of the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress

The mayor of Chongqing, officially the Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, is the head of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. The mayor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and is the second-highest ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Chongqing Committee.

Republic of China

	Portrait	Name	Term of office
			Took office	Left office
Supervisor of the Chongqing Commercial Port Supervision Office
1		Yang Sen	November 1921	August 1922
Supervisor of the Chongqing Municipal Government Office
2		Deng Xihou	February 1923
3		Cheng Guodong
4		Zhu Zongque
Supervisor of the Chongqing Commercial Port Supervisory Office
5		Tang Shizun	June 1926
6		Pan Wenhua	July 1926	1 November 1927	^[1]
Mayor of the Chongqing City Hall
(6)		Pan Wenhua	1 November 1927	15 February 1929	^[2]
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal Government
(6)		Pan Wenhua	15 February 1929	June 1935	^[3]
7		Zhang Biguo	24 June 1935	11 April 1936
8		Li Hongkun	1936	July 1938
9		Jiang Zhicheng	1 August 1938	5 May 1939
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal Government (city directly under the Central Government)
10		He Guoguang	15 May 1939	5 December 1939
11		K. C. Wu	December 1939	16 December 1942
12		He Yaozu	16 December 1942	November 1945
13		Zhang Dulun	1 December 1945	April 1948
14		Yang Sen	April 1948	30 November 1949

People's Republic of China

	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Political party
			Took office	Left office
Director of the People's Liberation Army Military Control Commission of Chongqing Municipality
1		Zhang Jichun	3 December 1949	?	Chinese Communist Party
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government
1		Chen Xilian	2 December 1949	September 1950	Chinese Communist Party
2		Cao Diqiu	December 1951	19 June 1954
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (province-level city of Sichuan)
(2)		Cao Diqiu	19 June 1954	January 1955	Chinese Communist Party
3		Ren Baige	January 1955	July 1966
Director of the Chongqing Revolutionary Committee
4		Lan Yinong	May 1968	December 1968	Chinese Communist Party
5		Duan Siying	December 1968	1969
6		He Yunfeng	1969	December 1973
7		Lu Dadong	December 1973	1978
8		Qian Min	May 1978	August 1978
9		Ding Changhe	1978	March 1980
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (province-level city of Sichuan)
10		Yu Hanqing	March 1980	May 1985	Chinese Communist Party
11		Xiao Yang	May 1985	August 1988
12		Sun Tongchuan	August 1988	April 1993
13		Liu Zhizhong	May 1993	September 1996
–		Pu Haiqing	September 1996	June 1999
Mayor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government
14		Pu Haiqing	19 June 1997	June 1999	Chinese Communist Party
15		Bao Xuding	June 1999	October 2002
16		Wang Hongju	January 2003	November 2009
17		Huang Qifan	30 November 2009	30 December 2016
18		Zhang Guoqing	30 December 2016	2 January 2018		^[4]
19		Tang Liangzhi	2 January 2018	30 December 2021		^[5]
20		Hu Henghua	30 December 2021	Incumbent		^[6]

References

1. Web site: 6 September 2007 . 25 Mayors of Chongqing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415075415/http://leaders.people.com.cn/GB/6225496.html . April 15, 2011 . . zh.
2. Web site: 6 September 2007 . 25 Mayors of Chongqing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415075415/http://leaders.people.com.cn/GB/6225496.html . April 15, 2011 . . zh.
3. Web site: 6 September 2007 . 25 Mayors of Chongqing . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415075415/http://leaders.people.com.cn/GB/6225496.html . April 15, 2011 . . zh.
4. Web site: 30 December 2016 . Chongqing mayor who survived China's biggest political storm of modern times resigns . 30 December 2016 . South China Morning Post.
5. Web site: 2018-01-02 . zh:唐良智任重庆市代理市长 . http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1932165 . 2018-01-02 . thepaper.cn . zh.
6. News: Zhu Jiabei (Chinese: 祝加贝) . 30 December 2021 . zh:胡衡华任重庆市代市长 . https://news.sina.com.cn/c/2021-12-30/doc-ikyamrmz2159918.shtml . 30 December 2021 . sina . zh.