Meng Fanli Explained

Office1:Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen
Term Start1:18 April 2022
Deputy1:Qin Weizhong
Predecessor1:Wang Weizhong
Office2:Communist Party Secretary of Baotou
Term Start2:September 2020
Term End2:April 2022
Successor2:TBA
Office3:Mayor of Qingdao
Term Start3:April 2017
Term End3:November 2020
Predecessor3:Zhang Xinqi
Office4:Communist Party Secretary of Yantai
Term Start4:May 2015
Term End4:March 2017
Successor4:Wang Hao
Meng Fanli
Native Name:孟凡利
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Place:Linyi County, Shandong, China
Party:Chinese Communist Party
Alma Mater:Shandong University of Finance and Economics
Nankai University
Tianjin University of Finance and Economics

Meng Fanli (; born September 1965) is a Chinese politician who is the current party secretary of Shenzhen and deputy party secretary of Guangdong, in office since April 2022. He is a delegate to the 13th National People's Congress.

Biography

Meng was born in Linyi County (now Linyi), Shandong, in September 1965. In 1982, he entered Shandong University of Finance and Economics, majoring in business accounting. After graduating in 1986, he taught at the university. He received his master's degree in western accounting in 1995 from Nankai University and doctor's degree in accounting in 1998 from Tianjin University of Finance and Economics.

Meng joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1986, and got involved in politics in June 2000, when he was appointed deputy director of Shandong Provincial Department of Finance. In July 2005, he became deputy party secretary of Shandong Luxin Investment Holding Co., Ltd., rising to party secretary in July 2009. In March 2013, he became director of Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce, but having held the position for only three months. He served as mayor of Yantai from 2013 to 2015, and party secretary, the top political position in the city, from 2015 to 2017. It would be his first job as "first-in-charge" of a city. In March 2017, he was promoted to acting mayor of Qingdao, confirmed in April.[1]

In September 2020, he was transferred to north China's Inner Mongolia, where he was appointed party secretary of Baotou and was admitted to member of the standing committee of the CCP Inner Mongolia Regional Committee, the region's top authority.[2] In November 2021, he became deputy party secretary of Inner Mongolia.

In April 2022, he was despatched to south China's Guangdong province and appointed party secretary of Shenzhen and deputy party secretary of Guangdong.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Gao Zhongye (Chinese: 高忠业). http://qingdao.dzwww.com/xinwen/qingdaonews/201703/t20170327_15690616.htm . zh:孟凡利被任命为青岛市代市长 . qingdao.dzwww.com . 27 March 2017 . 19 April 2022 . zh.
  2. News: Yi Yi (Chinese: 伊一). http://district.ce.cn/newarea/sddy/202009/29/t20200929_35843306.shtml . zh:青岛市长孟凡利调任内蒙古党委常委 接替张院忠任包头市委书记 . ce.cn . 29 September 2020 . 19 April 2021 . zh.
  3. News: Zhong Yuhao (Chinese: 钟煜豪). https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_17689832 . zh:孟凡利任广东省委副书记、深圳市委书记 . thepaper . 19 April 2021 . 19 April 2021 . zh.