Du Xiaogang

Du Xiaogang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, in June 1976. He studied international finance at Nanjing University from 1995 to 1999 and later obtained a Master of Business Administration degree through a joint program between Nanjing University and Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1997 and began his career in August 1999.^[3]

Du started his political career in Nanjing, working in Ninghai Road Subdistrict, Gulou District. He subsequently advanced through the Communist Youth League system, serving as deputy secretary and later secretary of the Gulou District Committee of the Communist Youth League. From 2004 to 2011, he held posts in Suzhou, including deputy secretary and secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League.^[4]

In June 2011, Du was appointed Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary and later district head of Canglang District, Suzhou. He subsequently served in the newly established Gusu District as deputy Party secretary and deputy district head. In 2013, he became deputy Party secretary and later mayor of Taicang, also heading the Taicang Port Economic and Technological Development Zone.^[5] In 2015, he was appointed mayor of Kunshan, later rising to become the city's Party secretary in 2018.^[6]

Du moved to Wuxi in late 2019, first serving as deputy Party secretary and acting mayor before becoming mayor in January 2020.^[7] In July 2021, he was promoted to Communist Party Secretary of Wuxi,^[8] and in March 2022, he concurrently assumed the position of chairman of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi Municipal People's Congress.^[9][10]