Top Officials of the Shanghai Municipal Government

Xi Jinping, Member of 16th CPC Central Committee, Secretary of CPC Shanghai Municipal, 54
Elected in 2007

Han Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, 50

Elected in February 2003

• Profession: Senior Economist
• Key Responsibilities: Overall Responsibility
• Last Position: Vice-Mayor since 1998 (auditing, traffic, post & telecom)

Feng Guoqin, Vice-Mayor of Shanghai, 46

• Profession: Economist
• Key Responsibilities: Audits, personnel, domestic co-ordination, fiscal policies & state assets admin.
• Last Position: Vice-Mayor since 1996; Member of Party Standing Committee.

Yang Xiong, Vice-Mayor of Shanghai, 51

• Profession: Master of Economics
• Key Responsibilities: Construction & management, real estate, water, traffic, civic environment health, afforestation, national economy, social informatisation & environmental protection.
• Last Position: Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai Government since 2001; Newly elected Vice-Mayor.

Zhou Taitong, Vice-Mayor of Shanghai, 52

• Profession: Senior Economist
• Key Responsibilities: Labour, social welfare, medical insurance, industrial & commercial admin, quality & technology, civil & district affairs, food & drug, social stability.
• Last Position: Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai Municipal Government; Director of Government Structural Reform Committee; General Division Party Secretary; Newly elected Vice-Mayor.

Tang Dengjie, Vice-Mayor of Shanghai, 39

• Profession: MBA
• Key Responsibilities: Industry, agriculture, commerce, tourism, power generation, working safety issues.
• Last Position: Director of Shanghai Municipal Economic Committee; Newly elected Vice-Mayor.

Hu Yan Zhao, Vice-Mayor of Shanghai,56

• Profession: senior statistician
• Key Responsibilities: industry, commerce, agriculture, electrical power production and production safety
• Last Position: vice secretary-general with CPC Shanghai Committee, dean of research office of Shanghai Municipality and Party group member of Shanghai Municipality,April 2004

Yang Dinghua, Vice-Mayor of Shanghai, 57

• Profession: senior economist
• Key Responsibilities: health, population and family planning, culture, film, radio and broadcasting, press and publications and sports
  elected as vice Mayor of Shanghai in October 2006