Li Qiang

Li Qiang
李强
Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 October 2017
Deputy	Ying Yong (Mayor)
Preceded by	Han Zheng
Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu
In office June 2016 – October 2017
Deputy	Shi Taifeng (Governor) Wu Zhenglong (Governor)
Preceded by	Luo Zhijun
Succeeded by	Lou Qinjian
Governor of Zhejiang
In office December 2012 – June 2016
Preceded by	Xia Baolong
Succeeded by	Che Jun
Personal details
Born	July 1959 (age 58) Rui'an, Zhejiang
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Zhejiang Agricultural University Central Party School

Li Qiang (Chinese: ; born July 1959) is a Chinese politician and senior regional official. He is the current Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai. Between 2012 and 2016, he was Governor of Zhejiang province, and Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu between 2016 and 2017. Prior to his governorship, Li served successively as the party secretary of Wenzhou, the Secretary-General of the Zhejiang party committee, and Deputy Party Secretary of Zhejiang.

Li Qiang was born in Rui'an, Zhejiang in 1959. He attended Zhejiang Agricultural University (now merged into Zhejiang University), where he majored in agricultural mechanization. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1983. He was the secretary of the Communist Youth League of Rui'an County. He then served in progressively senior roles in the provincial department of civil affairs. He later became the Communist Party secretary of the city of Yongkang, and then party chief of the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou. In 2005, Li earned a seat on the provincial Party Standing Committee, serving under then party secretary Xi Jinping, and also became the secretary-general of the provincial party committee, in charge of administration and coordination.

Li holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China.

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