Shen Xiaoming (; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician, serving from 2017 to 2020 as the

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

. A pediatrician by training, Shen rose through the ranks in the health and education bureaucracy of Shanghai. He successively served as party chief of Pudong and vice minister of education.

Life and career

Shen was born in Shangyu County,

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Ji ...

Province. He attended Wenzhou Medical College and obtained a degree in

pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

. He then attended Shanghai Jiaotong University and obtained a doctoral degree in pediatric medicine. After graduating he became the deputy head and then head of the

Xinhua Hospital Xinhua Hospital () is a general hospital in Shanghai, China, with the rank of "Grade 3, Class A ()". The hospital was established in 1958. It is a university hospital affiliated with School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Xinhua Hosp ...

, then president of the Second Medical University of Shanghai, then executive vice president of Shanghai Jiaotong University. He then entered the commission on education and health of Shanghai. In January 2008, he was named vice mayor of Shanghai. In May 2013, he was named party chief of Pudong, joining the municipal Standing Committee two months later. On April 8, 2015, he succeeded Ai Baojun to become head administrator of the

Shanghai Free-Trade Zone Shanghai Free-Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ or SFTZ), officially China (Shanghai) Pilot Free-Trade Zone, is a free-trade zone in Shanghai, China. On 22 August 2013, the State Council approved the establishment of the zone. Officially launched on 2 ...

. In October 2016, Shen was appointed as the Deputy Minister

of Education The tractate ''Of Education'' was published in 1644, first appearing anonymously as a single eight-page quarto sheet (Ainsworth 6). Presented as a letter written in response to a request from the Puritan educational reformer Samuel Hartlib, it r ...

. Shen was appointed as the acting Governor of Hainan in April 2017.

References

External links

Official biography of Shen Xiaoming
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shen, Xiaoming 1963 births People from Shangyu Governors of Hainan Wenzhou Medical College alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Zhejiang Chinese Communist Party politicians from Zhejiang Political office-holders in Shanghai Living people Politicians from Shaoxing Political office-holders in Hainan Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese paediatricians Physicians from Zhejiang Members of the National Academy of Medicine