Governor of Gansu

Governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government
甘肃省人民政府省长
National Emblem of China
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Incumbent Ren Zhenhe since 3 December 2020
Gansu Provincial People's Government
Type	Governor
Status	Provincial level official
Reports to	Gansu Provincial People's Congress and its Standing Committee
Nominator	Presidium of the Gansu Provincial People's Congress
Appointer	Gansu Provincial People's Congress
Term length	Five years, renewable
Inaugural holder	Wang Shitai
Formation	July 1949
Deputy	Deputy Governors Secretary-General

The governor of Gansu, officially the Governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government, is the head of Gansu Province and leader of the Gansu Provincial People's Government.

The governor is elected by the Gansu 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 Gansu 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 Gansu Committee. ^[1] The current governor is Ren Zhenhe, who took office on 3 December 2020.

List of governors

People's Republic of China

No.	Officeholder		Term of office		Party	Ref.
			Took office	Left office
Governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government
1		Wang Shitai (1910–2008)	July 1949	January 1950	Chinese Communist Party
2		Deng Baoshan (1894–1968)	January	December 1954
Governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Committee
(2)		Deng Baoshan (1894–1968)	December 1954	May 1967	Chinese Communist Party
Director of the Gansu Revolutionary Committee
3		Xian Henghan (1911–1991)	May 1967	January 1977	Chinese Communist Party
4		Song Ping (born 1917)	June 1977	December 1979
Governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government
5		Feng Jixin (1915–2005)	December 1979	January 1981	Chinese Communist Party
6		Li Dengying (1914–1996)	January 1981	April 1983
7		Chen Guangyi (born 1933)	April 1983	May 1986
8		Jia Zhijie (born 1935)	May 1986	January 1993
9		Yan Haiwang (born 1939)	January 1993	September 1993
10		Zhang Wule (born 1937)	September 1993	July 1996
11		Sun Ying (born 1936)	July 1996	April 1998
12		Song Zhaosu (1941–2022)	April 1998	January 2001
13		Lu Hao (born 1947)	January 2001	October 2006
14		Xu Shousheng (1953–2020)	30 October 2006	29 July 2010		[2]
15		Liu Weiping (born 1953)	29 July 2010	1 April 2016		[3]
16		Lin Duo (born 1956)	1 April 2016	11 April 2017		[4]
17		Tang Renjian (born 1962)	11 April 2017	3 December 2020		[5]
18		Ren Zhenhe (born 1964)	3 December 2020	Incumbent		[6]

References

1. "Decoding Chinese Politics: Provincial Leaders". Asia Society . Retrieved 5 March 2025.
2. "Xu Shousheng re-elected governor of northwest China's Gansu Province". Xinhua . 2008-01-27. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
3. 刘伟平简历 [Biography of Liu Weiping] (in Chinese). People's Daily. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-02-14.
4. "林铎任甘肃代省长：三度跨省履新 在京工作近30年". Sohu (in Chinese). 2016-04-02.
5. 唐仁健任甘肃省副省长、代理省长. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 2017-04-11.
6. "任振鹤任甘肃省代理省长(图/简历)". 人民网. Retrieved 8 December 2020.