PEOPLE & POINTS
Feb 03, 2022
3 minutes
↓ NEW CHONGQING MAYOR ELECTED
On January 21, Hu Henghua, 59, was elected mayor of Chongqing Municipality during the Third Plenary Session of the Fifth Session of the Fifth Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress, the local legislature.
After graduating from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, in 1983 with a bachelor’s in Engineering, Hu joined the Hengyang Steel Pipe Factory in Hunan Province and was later elected deputy director. In 1999, he served as general manager of Hunan Hengyang Steel Pipe (Group) Co. Ltd.
From 2009 onwards, Hu served as mayor of Yiyang and Changsha cities in Hunan, his home province.
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