Guo Yonghang

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 Publicity 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.^[1][2]

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.^[2]

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.^[2][3][4]

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.^[5][6]

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.^[7][8] In December 2025, he stepped down from his positions as a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Guangdong Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CCP Guangzhou Municipal Committee, and was succeeded by Feng Zhonghua.^[9]

On 28 January 2026, he was elected as the deputy chairperson of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[10]