Politics of Shanghai

Shanghai municipal government building.

The Politics of Shanghai[1] 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, including Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji, Wu Bangguo, and Huang Ju.

Overview

The Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government (上海市人民政府市长, abbreviated as Mayor of Shanghai 上海市市长) is the highest ranking executive official in Shanghai. Since Shanghai is a direct-controlled municipality of China, 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 Communist Party of China Shanghai Municipal Committee Secretary (中国共产党上海市委员会书记, abbreviated as 中共上海市委书记), colloquially termed the "Shanghai CPC 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).

Communist Party

Order CPC Party Secretary Term Notes
1 Rao Shushi 1949—1950 later purged in 1954
2 Chen Yi 1950—1954 Communist revolutionary, Marshal of the People's Liberation Army
Foreign Minister (1958-1972)
3 Ke Qingshi 1954—1965
4 Chen Pixian 1965—1967 Removed from office during January Storm
5 Zhang Chunqiao 1971—1976 Politburo Standing Committee (1973-1976)
Member of the Gang of Four
Titled "Secretary of the Revolutionary Committee of Shanghai"
6 Su Zhenhua 1976—1979 De facto Peng Chong; General, Admiral
7 Peng Chong 1979—1980
8 Chen Guodong 1980—1985
9 Rui Xingwen 1985—1987
10 Jiang Zemin 1987—1989 Politburo Standing Committee (1989-2002)
General Secretary (1989-2002) and President (1993-2003)
11 Zhu Rongji 1989—1991 Politburo Standing Committee (1997-2002)
Premier (1998-2003)
12 Wu Bangguo 1991—1994 Politburo Standing Committee (2002-2012)
Chairman of the National People's Congress (2002-2012)
13 Huang Ju 1994— 15 November 2002 Politburo Standing Committee (2002-2006)
later elevated to Politburo Standing Committee and Vice-Premier (2002-2006)
14 Chen Liangyu 15 November 2002 — 24 September 2006 dismissed for corruption, convicted in 2008, jailed.
— Han Zheng 24 September 2006 — 24 March 2007 Acting
15 Xi Jinping 24 March 2007 — 27 October 2007 Politburo Standing Committee (2007-)
General Secretary (2012-), President (2013-)
16 Yu Zhengsheng 27 October 2007 — 20 November 2012 Politburo Standing Committee (2012-)
National Committee Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
17 Han Zheng 20 November 2012 —

Current Standing Committee

The Shanghai Party Standing Committee is the de facto highest political organ of Shanghai. Its membership as of 2015 is as follows:

  1. Han Zheng, member since 1997, Shanghai Party Committee Secretary, Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, former Mayor of Shanghai
  2. Yang Xiong, member since 2007, Mayor of Shanghai, Deputy Party Committee Secretary
  3. Ying Yong, member since 2011, Deputy Shanghai Party Committee Secretary
  4. Tu Guangshao (屠光绍), member since 2007, Executive Vice Mayor
  5. Xu Lin (徐麟), member since 2007, Head of Propaganda Department
  6. Ai Baojun (艾宝俊), member since 2012, Vice Mayor
  7. Shen Xiaoming (沈晓明), member since 2013, Party Secretary of Pudong
  8. Zhu Shengling (朱生岭), Major General, member since 2013, Commissar of the Shanghai Military Mobilization District (上海警备区)
  9. Xu Zezhou (徐泽洲), member since 2014, Head of Organization Department
  10. Hou Kai (侯凯), member since 2013, Secretary of Discipline Inspection
  11. Jiang Ping (姜平), member since 2013, Political and Legal Affairs Secretary
  12. Sha Hailin (沙海林), member since 2012, Head of United Front Department
  13. Yin Hong (尹弘), member since 2012, Secretary-General of the Party Committee of Shanghai

List of Mayors

Mayor Term Notes
Huang Fu 7 July 1927 - April 1929 First mayor of Shanghai.
Chang Ch'ün April 1929 - January 1932
Wu Tiecheng January 1932 - April 1937
Yu Hung-Chun April 1937 - November 1937 Fled city following fall of Shanghai to the Empire of Japan in the Battle of Shanghai.
Chen Gongbo November 1940 - December 1944 Japanese collaborationist
Zhou Fohai December 1944 - August 1945 last Japanese collaborationist mayor, arrested by Kuomintang forces
K. C. Wu August 1945 - May 1949 last Kuomintang mayor, fled after communist takeover
Chen Yi May 1949 — November 1958 military commander
Ke Qingshi November 1958 — 9 April 1965
Cao Diqiu December 1965 — 24 February 1967 purged during the Cultural Revolution
Zhang Chunqiao 24 February 1967 — October 1976 Chairman of Shanghai Revolutionary Committee
Member of Gang of Four, sentenced for treason
Su Zhenhua November 1976 — 7 February 1979 Chairman of Shanghai Revolutionary Committee
Peng Chong 7 February 1979 — April 1981 De facto head from late 1976.
Wang Daohan April 1981 — July 1985 Jiang mentor
Jiang Zemin July 1985 — April 1988 later General Secretary (1989-2002) and President (1993-2003)
Zhu Rongji April 1988 — April 1991 later Premier (1998-2003)
Huang Ju April 1991 — February 1995 later Vice-Premier (2003-died in office on 2 June 2007)
Xu Kuangdi February 1995 — 7 December 2001 Demoted
Chen Liangyu 7 December 2001 — 21 February 2003 Later sacked
Han Zheng 21 February 2003 — 26 December 2012 Concurrently acting party chief 2006-2007, 2012
Yang Xiong 26 December 2012 — present acting until February 2013

List of Chairmen of Shanghai People's Congress

  1. Yan Youmin (严佑民): 1979－1981
  2. Hu Lijiao (胡立教): 1981－1988
  3. Ye Gongqi (叶公琦): 1988－1998
  4. Chen Tiedi (陈铁迪): 1998－2003
  5. Gong Xueping (龚学平): 2003－2008
  6. Liu Yungeng (刘云耕) : 2008－2013
  7. Yin Yicui (殷一璀): 2013－incumbent

List of Chairmen of Shanghai CPPCC

  1. Ke Qingshi (柯庆施): 1955－1958
  2. Chen Pixian (陈丕显): 1958－1967
  3. Peng Chong (彭冲): 1977－1979
  4. Wang Yiping (王一平): 1979－1983
  5. Li Guohao (李国豪): 1983－1988
  6. Xie Xide (谢希德): 1988－1993
  7. Chen Tiedi (陈铁迪): 1993－1998
  8. Wang Liping (王力平): 1998－2003
  9. Jiang Yiren (蒋以任): 2003－2008
  10. Feng Guoqin (冯国勤): 2008－2013
  11. Wu Zhiming (吴志明): 2013－incumbent

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Politics of Shanghai". South China Morning Post (China). Retrieved 12 August 2013.
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