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

The governor is elected by the Jiangsu 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 Jiangsu 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 Jiangsu Committee.[1] The current governor is Xu Kunlin, who took office on 19 October 2021.

List of governors

Republic of China

Beiyang government

No. Officeholder Term of office
Took office Left office
Military Governor
1 Cheng Dequan

(1860–1930)

5 November 1911 1 January 1912
2 Zhuang Yunkuan

(1867–1932)

1 January 1912 13 April 1912
3 Cheng Dequan

(1860–1930)

13 April 1912 3 September 1913
4 Zhang Xun

(1854–1923)

3 September 1913 16 December 1913
5 Feng Guozhang

(1859–1919)

16 December 1913 1 August 1917
6 Li Chun

(1867–1920)

6 August 1917 12 October 1920
7 Qi Xieyuan

(1885–1946)

15 October 1920 11 December 1924
8 Han Guojun

(1857–1942)

11 December 1924 6 January 1925
9 Lu Yongxiang

(1867–1933)

16 January 1925 August 1925
10 Zheng Qian

(1876–1929)

August 1925 29 August 1925
11 Yang Yuting

(1886–1929)

29 August 1925 25 November 1925
12 Sun Chuanfang

(1885–1935)

25 November 1925 24 March 1927
Civilian Governor
1 Ying Dehong

(1876–1919)

19 November 1912 6 September 1913
2 Han Guojun

(1857–1942)

9 September 1913 15 July 1914
3 Qi Yaolin

(1862–1949)

15 July 1914 18 September 1920
4 Wang Hu

(1865–1933)

18 September 1920 15 June 1922
5 Han Guojun

(1857–1942)

15 June 1922 14 February 1925
6 Zheng Qian

(1876–1929)

14 February 1925 1 December 1925
7 Chen Taoyi

(1881–1946)

1 December 1925 24 December 1926
8 Xu Dingkang

(1876–1938)

24 December 1926 24 March 1927

Nationalist government

No. Officeholder Term of office
Took office Left office
Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Government
1 Niu Yongjian

(1870–1965)

1 November 1927 17 March 1930
2 Ye Chucang

(1887–1946)

17 March 1930 15 December 1931
3 Gu Zhutong

(1893–1987)

15 December 1931 3 October 1933
4 Chen Guofu

(1892–1951)

3 October 1933 26 November 1937
5 Gu Zhutong

(1893–1987)

26 November 1937 13 October 1939
6 Han Deqin

(1892–1988)

12 May 1938 10 January 1945
7 Wang Maogong

(1891–1961)

10 January 1945 2 September 1948
8 Ding Zhipan

(1894–1988)

2 September 1948 21 May 1950

Japanese occupation

No. Officeholder Term of office
Took office Left office
1 Chen Zemin

(1881–1951)

30 March 1940 20 June 1940
2 Gao Guanwu

(1892–1957)

20 June 1940 20 January 1943
3 Li Shiqun

(1905–1943)

20 January 1943 9 September 1943
4 Chen Qun

(1890–1945)

9 September 1943 2 November 1944
5 Ren Yuandao

(1890–1980)

2 November 1944 3 May 1945
6 Xiang Zhizhuang

(1894–1946)

3 May 1945 15 August 1945

People's Republic of China

No. Officeholder Term of office Party Ref.
Took office Left office
Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government
1 Tan Zhenlin

(1902–1983)

August 1949 January 1955 Chinese Communist Party [2][3]
Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Committee
2 Hui Yuyu

(1909–1989)

August 1957 1964 Chinese Communist Party [2]
3 Du Ping

(1908–1999)

1964 February 1968 [2]
Director of the Jiangsu Revolutionary Committee
4 Xu Shiyou

(1906–1985)

February 1968 1973 Chinese Communist Party [2]
5 Peng Chong

(1915–2010)

1973 February 1977 [2]
6 Xu Jiatun

(1916–2016)

February 1977 December 1979 [2]
Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government
7 Hui Yuyu

(1909–1989)

January 1980 December 1981 Chinese Communist Party [2]
8 Han Peixin

(1921–2017)

December 1981 May 1983 [2]
9 Gu Xiulian

(born 1936)

May 1983 April 1989 [2]
10 Chen Huanyou

(born 1934)

April 1989 September 1994 [2]
11 Zheng Silin

(1940–2022)

September 1994 September 1998 [4]
12 Ji Yunshi

(born 1945)

September 1998 December 2002 [5]
13 Liang Baohua

(born 1945)

December 2002 January 2008 [6]
14 Luo Zhijun

(1951–2023)

4 January 2008 8 December 2010 [7]
15 Li Xueyong

(born 1950)

8 December 2010 30 November 2015 [8]
16 Shi Taifeng

(born 1956)

28 January 2016

(acting from 30 November 2015)

31 May 2017 [9]
17 Wu Zhenglong

(born 1964)

31 May 2017 19 October 2021 [10]
18 Xu Kunlin

(born 1965)

19 October 2021 Incumbent [11]

References

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  7. ^ "Biography of Luo Zhijun". Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  8. ^ "李学勇任全国人大财经委副主任委员，此前请辞江苏省长职务". 澎湃新闻. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
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