Politics of Liaoning

The politics of Liaoning Province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a single party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China.

The Governor of Liaoning () is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Liaoning. However, in the province's single party-government governing system, the Governor has less power than the Liaoning Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Provincial Committee Secretary (), colloquially termed the "Liaoning CCP Party Chief".

Previous to 1949 and the takeover of the Communist forces, Liaoning was governed by the Fengtian Clique of warlords and interchangeably officials of the Chiang Kai-shek bureaucracy. During the Qing dynasty Liaoning was known as the province of Fengtian, and was governed by a zongdu or Viceroy (The Viceroy of the Three Eastern Provinces 东三省总督), along with the provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang. The province itself also had a governor (xunfu).

List of governors

Governor	Chinese Name	Term	Notes
Du Zheheng	杜者蘅	August 1954 – October 1958
Huang Oudong	黄欧东	October 1958 – January 1967
Chen Xilian	陈锡联	May 1968 – December 1973	Politically disgraced after the Cultural Revolution
Zeng Shaoshan	曾绍山	September 1975 – September 1978
Ren Zhongyi	任仲夷	September 1978 – January 1979
Chen Puru	陈璞如	January 1980 – April 1982
Quan Shuren	全树仁	April 1983 – July 1986
Li Changchun	李长春	July 1986 – July 1990	Politburo Standing Committee (2002 – 2012)
Yue Qifeng	岳歧峰	July 1990 – May 1994
Wen Shizhen	闻世震	May 1994 – January 1998
Zhang Guoguang	张国光	January 1998 – January 2001
Bo Xilai	薄熙来	January 2001 – February 2004	Later Minister of Commerce, Party Secretary of Chongqing; Politburo (2007 – 2012); Charged and convicted of bribery and abuse of power in 2013, jailed.
Zhang Wenyue	张文岳	February 2004 – December 2007	Promoted to party chief
Chen Zhenggao	陈政高	December 2007 – May 2014	Later Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
Li Xi	李希	May 2014 – May 2015	Promoted to party chief
Chen Qiufa	陈求发	May 2015 – October 2017	Promoted to party chief
Tang Yijun	唐一军	October 2017 – April 2020
Liu Ning	刘宁	April 2020 – October 2021
Li Lecheng	李乐成	October 2021 – February 2025	Promoted to Minister of Industry and Information Technology
Wang Xinwei	王新伟	February 2025 – present	Acting governor and deputy governor

List of chairmen of Liaoning People's Congress

1. Huang Oudong (): 1980–1983
2. Zhang Zhengde (): 1983–1988
3. Wang Guangzhong (): 1988–1993
4. Quan Shuren ():1993–1998
5. Wang Huaiyuan (): 1998–2003
6. Wen Shizhen (): 2003–2005
7. Li Keqiang (): 2005–2007
8. Zhang Xilin (): 2007–2010
9. Wang Min (): 2010–2015
10. Li Xi (): 2015– 2018
11. Chen Qiufa (): 2018–2021
12. Zhang Guoqing (): 2021–present

List of chairmen of Liaoning CPPCC

1. Huang Oudong (): 1955–1959
2. Huang Huoqing: 1959–1967
3. Huang Oudong (): 1977–1980
4. Li Huang (): 1980–1982
5. Song Li (): 1982–1985
6. Xu Shaofu (): 1985–1993
7. Sun Qi (): 1993–2001
8. Xiao Zuofu (): 2001–2003
9. Zhang Wenyue (): 2003–2004
10. Guo Tingbiao (): 2004–2008
11. Luo Lin (): 2008
12. Yue Fuhong (): 2009–2013
13. Xia Deren: 2013– 2021
14. Zhou Bo: 2021–present

See also

• Politics of the People's Republic of China