Politics of Shanghai

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Shanghai municipal government building.

The Politics of Shanghai is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In the last few decades the city has produced many of the country's eventual senior leaders. The city has been important politically to China since the end of the 19th Century.

The Mayor of Shanghai (上海市长) is the highest ranking official in the People's Government of Shanghai. Since Shanghai is a centrally administered municipality, the mayor occupies the same level in the order of precedence as provincial governors. However, in the city's dual party-government governing system, the mayor has less power than the Shanghai Communist Party of China Municipal Committee Secretary (上海市委书记), colloquially termed the "Shanghai Party Chief".

Before 1941, Shanghai had a split administration: the International Settlement (governed under the Shanghai Municipal Council, the French Concession, and the Chinese City. The Chinese city was invaded by the Japanese in 1937 and the foreign concessions were occupied by the Japanese in 1941. After the occupation, the foreign powers formally ceded the territory to the Nationalist Government in Chongqing (a move largely symbolic until the Japanese surrender since the Nationalists no longer controlled Shanghai).

[edit] List of party chiefs

CPC Party Secretary	Term	Notes
Rao Shushi
Chen Yi		military commander
Chen Pixian
Peng Chong
Chen Guodong
Rui Xingwen
Jiang Zemin		later President (1993-2003)
Zhu Rongji		later Premier
Wu Bangguo		later Chairman of the National People's Congress
Huang Ju	1994—2002	later Vice-Premier
Chen Liangyu	2002—2006	dismissed for corruption
Han Zheng	2006—2007	Acting
Xi Jinping	2007—	Former Party Chief in Zhejiang and Fujian

[edit] List of Mayors

Mayor	Term	Notes
Chen Yi	May 1949 — November 1958	military commander
Ke Qingshi	November 1958 — April 9, 1965
Cao Gengqiu	December 1965 — February 1967
Zhang Chunqiao	February 24, 1967 — October 1976	Chairman of Shanghai Revolutionary Committee Member of Gang of Four, sentenced for treason
Su Zhenhua	November 1976 — February 7, 1979	Chairman of Shanghai Revolutionary Committee
Peng Chong	February 1979 — April 1981
Wang Daohan	April 1981 — July 1985	Jiang mentor
Jiang Zemin	July 1985 — April 1988	later President (1993-2003)
Zhu Rongji	April 1988 — April 1991	later Premier (1998-2003)
Huang Ju	April 1991 — February 1995	later Vice-Premier (2003-present)
Xu Kuangdi	February 1995 — December 7, 2001	Demoted
Chen Liangyu	December 7, 2001 — February 21, 2003	Later sacked
Han Zheng	February 21, 2003 - present	Concurrently acting party chief 2006-2007