President of Peking University

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The President of Peking University is the chief administrator of Peking University, a major public academic institution of higher learning, located in Beijing, capital of the People's Republic of China. Each is appointed by and is responsible to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council, who delegate to him or her the day-to-day running of the university. The current president is Gong Qihuang, in office since June 2022.

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Presidents of Peking University

PeriodYearPresident (English name)President (Chinese name)Alma materRef
Imperial University of PekingJuly 1898-Spring 1900 Sun Jianai 孙家鼐
July 1899-July 1900 Xu Jingcheng 许景澄
January 1902-February 1904 Zhang Baixi 张百熙
February 1904-February 1906 Zhang Hengjia 张亨嘉
February 1906-July 1907 Li Jiaju 李家驹
July 1907-December 1907 Zhu Yifan 朱益藩
December 1907-September 1910 Liu Tingshen 刘廷琛
September 1910-November 1911 Ke Shaomin 柯劭愍
November 1911-February 1912 Lao Naixuan 劳乃宣
National Peking UniversityFebruary 1912-October 1912 Yan Fu 严复 Royal Naval College, Greenwich
December 1912-November 1913 He Xiehou 何燏时 Zhejiang University
Tokyo Imperial University
November1913-December 1916 Hu Renyuan 胡仁源 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peking University
December 1916-August 1927 Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 Universität Leipzig
Humboldt University of Berlin
Imperial College of PekingAugust 1927-June 1928 Liu Zhe 刘哲Peking University
National Peiping UniversityJune 1928-January 1929 Li Shizeng 李煜瀛 Pasteur Institute
Ecole Pratique d'Agriculture du Chesnoy
January 1929-August 1929 Chen Daqi 陈大齐 University of Tokyo
Humboldt University of Berlin
National Peking UniversitySeptember 1929-December 1930 Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 Universität Leipzig
Humboldt University of Berlin
December 1930-July 1937 Jiang Menglin 蒋梦麟 University of California, Berkeley
Columbia University
January 1939-March 1940 Tang Erhe 汤尔和
March 1940-October 1945 Qian Daosun 钱稻孙Italy National University
October 1945-August 1946 Fu Sinian 傅斯年Peking University
University College London
Humboldt University of Berlin
 September 1946-December 1948 Hu Shih 胡适 Cornell University
Columbia University
Peking UniversityMay 1949-September 1951 Tang Yongtong 汤用彤 Harvard University
June 1951-March 1960 Ma Yinchu 马寅初 Tianjin University
Yale University
Columbia University
March 1960-June 1966 Lu Ping 陆平
July 1978-March 1981 Zhou Peiyuan 周培源 Tsinghua University
University of Chicago
California Institute of Technology
May 1981-March 1984 Zhang Longxiang 张龙翔University of Shanghai
Lingnan University
Tsinghua University
University of Toronto
Yale University
March 1984-August 1989 Ding Shisun 丁石孙 Utopia University
Tsinghua University
August 1989-August 1996 Wu Shuqing 吴树青 Renmin University of China
July 1996-November 1999 Chen Jia'er 陈佳洱 Jilin University
November 1999-November 2008 Xu Zhihong 许智宏Peking University
University of Nottingham
November 2008-March 2013 Zhou Qifeng 周其凤Peking University
University of Massachusetts Amherst
[1]
March 2013-February 2015 Wang Enge 王恩哥 Liaoning University
Peking University
[2]
February 2015-23 October 2018 Lin Jianhua 林建华Peking University [3]
23 October 2018–June 2022 Hao Ping 郝平Peking University
University of Hawaii
[4]
June 2022–present Gong Qihuang 龚旗煌Peking University [5]

Communist Party Secretaries of Peking University

PeriodYearCommunist Party Secretary (English name)Communist Party Secretary (Chinese name)Alma materRef
Peking UniversityJanuary 1949-March 1949 Xiao Song 萧松
March 1949-June 1949 Lin Naisang 林乃桑
June 1949-October 1951 Ye Xiangzhong 叶向忠
October 1951-October 1952 Zhang Qunyu 张群玉
October 1952-December 1954 Li Hu 李瑚Fu Jen Catholic University
December 1954-December 1956 Shi Menglan 史梦兰
December 1956-October 1957 Jiang Longji 江隆基Peking University
Meiji University
Humboldt University of Berlin
October 1957-June 1966 Lu Ping 陆平
September 1977-December 1979 Zhou Lin 周林Hongda College
December 1979-September 1982 Han Tianshi 韩天石
September 1982-March 1984 Xiang Ziming 项子明
March 1984-January 1991 Wang Xuezhen 王学珍Peking University
January 1991-July 1994 Wang Jialiu 汪家鏐Peking University
July 1994-March 2000 Ren Yanshen 任彦申 Tsinghua University
April 2000-April 2002 Wang Debing 王德炳Peking University Health Science Center
April 2002-August 2011 Min Weifang 闵维方 Beijing Normal University
University of Texas at Austin
Stanford University
August 2011-December 2016 Zhu Shanlu 朱善璐Peking University
December 2016-23 October 2018 Hao Ping 郝平Peking University
University of Hawaii
23 October 2018Qiu Shuiping邱水平Peking University
June 2022–present Hao Ping 郝平Peking University
University of Hawaii

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References

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