Tang Liangzhi (; born 12 June 1960) is a Chinese politician who is the current party branch secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, zh, 中国人民政治协商会议), also known as the People's PCC (, ) or simply the PCC (), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of ...

. He was previously mayor of

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a municipality in Southwest China. The official abbreviation of the city, "" (), was approved by the State Co ...

from January 2018 to December 2021, party secretary of

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese provin ...

, the capital of

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of t ...

Province, and mayor of

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...

, the capital of

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...

Biography

Tang was born in

Honghu Honghu () is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei province. The city lies on the northwest (left) bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjacent ...

, Hubei Province. He attended the Huazhong Technology University, where he specialized in

solid-state electronics Solid-state electronics means semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment using semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs). The term is also used as an adjective for devices in which semiconductor electr ...

. After graduating in 1983, he was sent to work for a research institute under the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. In 1985, he returned to Wuhan to become a technician at a local research institute. In 1987, he joined the inaugural staff of the East Lake Development Area in Wuhan. He spent much of the next two decades working in the Wuhan high-tech sector, in charge of innovation and administration. In 2002, he obtained a doctorate in economics, specializing in western economics. In June 2007, Tang moved into politics, becoming the mayor of

Xiangfan Xiangyang is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei province, China and the second largest city in Hubei by population. It was known as Xiangfan from 1950 to 2010. The Han River runs through Xiangyang's centre and divides the city no ...

. In February 2008, he was named party chief of Xiangfan. In February 2011, he was named mayor of Wuhan. His advocacy for major construction development during his time as mayor of Wuhan earned him the nickname "Mr. Dig Dig." In December 2014, Tang left his home province and was named mayor of

. In July 2016, Tang took over the post of Chengdu party chief from Huang Xinchu. In April 2017, Tang was named deputy party secretary of

. He was appointed as

mayor of Chongqing The politics of Chongqing is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Mayor of Chongqing is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Chongqin ...

in January 2018. In December 2021, he was appointed party branch secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tang, Liangzhi Living people Political office-holders in Sichuan 1960 births Mayors of Chongqing Mayors of Wuhan Huazhong University of Science and Technology alumni Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party