Politics of Shenzhen

The politics of Shenzhen in Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China.

The mayor of Shenzhen is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Shenzhen or Shenzhen Municipal Government. However, in the city's dual party-government governing system, the mayor has less power than Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Shenzhen, colloquially termed the "CCP Party Chief of Shenzhen" or "Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen".

List of mayors of Shenzhen

Main article: Mayor of Shenzhen

No.	English name	Chinese name	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Jia Hua	贾华	23 January 1979	17 June 1980

After Shenzhen was designated as a Special Economic Zone

No.	English name	Chinese name	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Wu Nansheng	吴南生	17 June 1980	6 March 1981
2	Liang Xiang	梁湘	15 October 1981	12 August 1985
3	Li Hao	李灏	12 August 1986	23 May 1990
4	Zheng Liangyu	郑良玉	23 May 1990	17 November 1992
5	Li Youwei	厉有为	17 November 1992	23 May 1995
6	Li Zibin	李子彬	23 May 1995	18 June 2000
7	Yu Youjun	于幼军	18 June 2000	17 June 2003
8	Li Hongzhong	李鸿忠	17 June 2003	3 June 2005
9	Xu Zongheng	许宗衡	3 June 2005	June 2009
10	Wang Rong	王荣	June 2009	June 2010
11	Xu Qin	许勤	June 2010	April 2017
12	Chen Rugui	陈如桂	July 2017		[1]

List of CCP Party secretaries of Shenzhen

Main article: Party Secretary of Shenzhen

No.	English name	Chinese name	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Zhang Xunfu	张勋甫	23 January 1979	17 June 1980

After Shenzhen was designated as a Special Economic Zone

No.	English name	Chinese name	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Wu Nansheng	吴南生	17 June 1980	6 March 1981	[2]
2	Liang Xiang	梁湘	6 March 1981	15 May 1986
3	Li Hao	李灏	15 May 1986	April 1993
4	Li Youwei	厉有为	April 1993	January 1998
5	Zhang Gaoli	张高丽	January 1998	16 December 2001
6	Huang Liman	黄丽满	17 December 2001	17 March 2005
7	Li Hongzhong	李鸿忠	17 March 2005	November 2007
8	Liu Yupu	刘玉浦	September 2008	April 2010
9	Wang Rong	王荣	April 2010	March 2015
10	Ma Xingrui	马兴瑞	26 March 2015	30 December 2016
11	Xu Qin	许勤	30 December 2016	1 April 2017
12	Wang Weizhong	王伟中	1 April 2017		[3]

Laws

The city government introduced a good samaritan law in 2013, which intends to protect potential good samaritans from being scammed by people pretending to be victims.^[4] This was the first such law passed by a municipal government in mainland China.^[5] In 2020 the city passed the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Regulations on the Comprehensive Ban on Wild Animals", effective May 1 of that year, which also banned eating cats, dogs, and several other species, also making it the first in mainland China.^[6]

Paid leave became legally required in November 2020.^[7]