Mayor of Shanghai

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Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government
上海市人民政府市长
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Incumbent Gong Zheng since 23 March 2020
Shanghai Municipal People's Government
Type	Head of government
Status	Provincial and ministerial-level official
Reports to	Shanghai Municipal People's Congress and its Standing Committee
Nominator	Presidium of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress
Appointer	Shanghai Municipal People's Congress
Term length	Five years, renewable
Inaugural holder	Chen Yi
Formation	28 May 1949
Deputy	Deputy Mayors Secretary-General

The mayor of Shanghai, officially the Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, is the head of Shanghai Municipality and leader of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.

The mayor is elected by the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and responsible to it and its Standing Committee. The mayor is a provincial level official and is responsible for the overall decision-making of the municipal government. The mayor is assisted by an executive vice mayor as well as several vice mayors. The mayor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as a member of the CCP Central Committee. The mayor the second-highest ranking official in the city after the secretary of the CCP Shanghai Committee.^[1] The current mayor is Gong Zheng, who took office on 23 March 2020.