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Chinese politician In this Chinese name, the family name is Guo.
Guo Yonghang
郭永航
Guo in 2023
Communist Party Secretary of Guangzhou
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 June 2023
DeputySun Zhiyang
Preceded byLin Keqing
Mayor of Guangzhou
In office
28 January 2022 – 9 October 2023
Preceded byWen Guohui
Succeeded bySun Zhiyang
Communist Party Secretary of Zhuhai
In office
February 2018 – November 2021
Preceded byGuo Yuanqiang
Succeeded byLu Yuyin
Personal details
BornOctober 1965 (age 59)
Jiyang, Shandong, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materWuhan University

Guo Yonghang (Chinese: 郭永航; pinyin: Guō Yǒnghang; born October 1965) is a Chinese politician who is the current party secretary of Guangzhou, in office since June 2023. He is a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress.

Biography

Born in 1965 in Jiyang District in Jinan, Shandong, Guo attended Wuhan University from 1985 to 1989 where he studied Chinese history at the Department of History and during this period in June 1986, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Following graduation, he was assigned to Shenzhen where he worked in propaganda and organization department, and general office of the CCP Shenzhen Municipal Committee. From 2002, he served as the deputy director of the propaganda department of the CCP Shenzhen Municipal Committee, director of the cultural industry development office of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government and Deputy secretary-general of the CCP Shenzhen Municipal Committee. During this period, he obtained a doctorate in management from Wuhan University with a major in administrative management.

In June 2010, he was appointed Secretary of the CCP Yantian District Committee in Shenzhen, and in February of the following year, he also served as Chairman of the District People's Congress Standing Committee. In May 2015, he was promoted to member of the Standing Committee and secretary-general of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee.

In February 2018, he was transferred to Zhuhai where served as secretary of the CCP Zhuhai Municipal Committee, chairman of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee and first secretary of the Zhuhai Garrison Party Committee, till 2021. At the sane period, he also served as deputy director of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin and secretary of the Hengqin Working Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.

On 19 October 2021, he was promoted to the position of Vice Governor of Guangdong. On December 3 of the same year, just over a month after taking office as Vice Governor of Guangdong, he took over as Deputy Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee and became the acting Mayor of the Guangzhou. On 28 January 2022, he was elected Mayor of Guangzhou.

On 16 June 2023, he concurrently served as member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Guangdong Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CCP Guangzhou Municipal Committee. On October 9 of the same year, he resigned as Mayor of Guangzhou and was succeeded by Sun Zhiyang.

Notes

  1. acting from 3 December 2021

References

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  2. ^ "郭永航任广东省副省长". CCTV. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
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  4. "郭永航、方利旭、梁维东分任珠海、汕头、东莞市委书记". The Paper. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
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  6. "郭永航任广州市代市长". Lianhe Zaobao. 2021-12-04. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
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  8. "孙志洋任广州市副市长、代市长". Southcn.com. 2023-10-09. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
Party political offices
Preceded byLin Keqing [zh] Communist Party Secretary of Guangzhou
2023– 		Incumbent
Preceded byWen Guohui Mayor of Guangzhou
2022–2023 		Succeeded bySun Zhiyang
Preceded byGuo Yuanqiang Communist Party Secretary of Zhuhai
2018–2021 		Succeeded byLu Yuyin [zh]
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