The governor of Hunan, officially the Governor of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, is the head Hunan Province and leader of the Hunan Provincial People's Government.
The governor is elected by the Hunan 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 Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The governor is the second highest-ranking official in the province after the secretary of the CCP Hunan Committee. The current governor is Mao Weiming, who took office on 27 November 2020.
List of governors
People's Republic of China ImageName (English)Name (Chinese)Took officeLeft officeChen Mingren4 August 194924 August 1949Cheng QianAugust 1949April 1950Wang ShoudaoApril 1950December 1952Cheng QianDecember 1952April 1968Li YuanApril 1968May 1970Hua GuofengMay 1970June 1977Mao ZhiyongJune 1977December 1979Sun GuozhiDecember 1979May 1983Liu ZhengMay 1983July 1985Xiong QingquanJuly 1985May 1989Chen BangzhuMay 1989January 1995Yang ZhengwuJanuary 1995September 1998Chu BoSeptember 1998August 2001Zhang YunchuanAugust 2001March 2003Zhou BohuaMarch 2003September 2006Zhou QiangSeptember 2006June 2010Xu ShoushengJune 2010April 2013Du JiahaoApril 2013September 2016Xu DazheSeptember 2016November 2020Mao WeimingNovember 2020Incumbent
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