Song Lewei was born in October 1969 in Weifang, Shandong Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in November 1992 and entered the workforce in August 1993. From 1989 to 1993, he studied welding technology and equipment in the Department of Materials Engineering at Shandong University of Technology. After graduation, he worked at Nanjing Superconductor Materials Technology Development Company as a staff member and later as deputy manager of its bioproducts marketing department.[2]
In 1997, he entered the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, where he served in various roles, including deputy section chief and later section chief of the Comprehensive Planning Division. Between 1997 and 2000, he pursued a master's degree in technology economics and management at the School of Economics and Management of Southeast University. From 2001 to 2004, he was deputy director of the General Office of the Department of Science and Technology and participated in aid work in Tibet as deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group and executive deputy director of the Lhasa Science and Technology Bureau.[3] He continued his doctoral studies in management science and engineering at Southeast University from 2002 to 2009, earning a PhD degree. From 2009 to 2011, he served as director of the Development Planning and Finance Division of the Department of Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province.[4]
Song was later transferred to South Jiangsu, where he held local leadership positions. He served as Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary and then head of Tongzhou District, before being appointed Party secretary of Tongzhou District, concurrently chairing the district's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 2016, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Nantong Municipal Committee while continuing as Party secretary of Tongzhou.[5]
In May 2017, Song was transferred to Suqian, where he served as deputy Party secretary and concurrently president of the Party School. In December 2020, he was appointed Party secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Emergency Management,[6] and in January 2021, he was confirmed as both Party secretary and director of the department.[7] In May 2022, he was appointed Party secretary of Xuzhou,[8] and in July of the same year, he was also named First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xuzhou Military Subdistrict.[1]