Mao Weiming

Governor of HunanAssumed office
27 November 2020Party SecretaryShen XiaomingPreceded byXu DazheChairman of the State Grid Corporation of ChinaIn office
January 2020 – November 2020Preceded byKou WeiSucceeded byXin Bao'anExecutive Vice Governor of JiangxiIn office
September 2015 – January 2020GovernorLiu Qi
Yi LianhongPreceded byMo JianchengSucceeded byYin Meigen Personal detailsBornMay 1961 (age 62–63)
Quzhou, Zhejiang, ChinaPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materZhejiang UniversityChinese nameSimplified Chinese毛伟明Traditional Chinese毛偉明

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Máo Wěimíng

Mao Weiming (Chinese: 毛伟明, born May 1961) is a Chinese politician, serving since November 2020 as governor of Hunan.

Mao was a delegate to the 11th, 12th and 13th National People's Congress. He was an alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and is a member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Mao was born in Quzhou, Zhejiang. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1982, majoring chemical engineering. In September 1985, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He had been served as the Secretary-General of Jiangsu (2013), the Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology (2013–2015), the Executive Deputy Governor of Jiangxi (2015–January 2020), and Chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China (January–November 2020).

In November 2020, Mao was named the Deputy Party Secretary and acting Governor of Hunan.^[1][2][3] He was elected as the Governor in January 2021.

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Government offices
Preceded by Song Chengyu (宋诚宇)	Mayor of Wujin 1998–2001	Succeeded by Li Xiaoping (李小平)
Preceded by Xia Ming (夏鸣)	Mayor of Taizhou 2003–2006	Succeeded by Yao Jianhua [zh]
Preceded by Qian Zhixin	Director of Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission 2006–2011	Succeeded by Chen Zhenyu [zh]
Preceded by Fan Jinlong [zh]	Secretary-General of Jiangsu Provincial People's Government 2011–2013	Succeeded by Zhang Jinghua
Preceded by Mo Jiancheng	Executive Vice Governor of Jiangxi Provincial People's Government 2015–2020	Succeeded by Yin Meigen
Preceded by Xu Dazhe	Governor of Hunan Provincial People's Government 2020–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Song Chengyu (宋诚宇)	Communist Party Secretary of Wujin 2001	Succeeded by Sheng Keqin (盛克勤)
Business positions
Preceded by Kou Wei	Chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China 2020	Succeeded by Xin Bao'an