Tang Dengjie
唐登杰
Tang Dengjie, 2017.
Party Secretary of Shanxi
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 October 2023
Governor	Jin Xiangjun
Preceded by	Lan Fo'an
Minister of Civil Affairs
In office 28 February 2022 – 29 December 2023
Premier	Li Keqiang Li Qiang
Preceded by	Li Jiheng
Succeeded by	Lu Zhiyuan
Governor of Fujian
In office 2 January 2018 – 2 July 2020
Preceded by	Yu Weiguo
Succeeded by	Wang Ning
Director of theChina National Space Administration
In office May 2017 – December 2017
Preceded by	Xu Dazhe
Succeeded by	Zhang Kejian
Personal details
Born	June 1964 (age 61) Shanghai, China
Party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Tongji University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	唐登杰
Traditional Chinese	唐登傑
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Táng Dēngjié

Tang Dengjie (Chinese:唐登杰; born June 1964) is a Chinese politician and business executive who is currently serving as theParty Secretary of Shanxi.

Previously, he served as the deputy minister in charge of theNational Development and Reform Commission and before that,governor of Fujian and director of theChina National Space Administration. He spent much of his career inShanghai, especially in the automobile industry. He has also served as the chief executive of the state-ownedChina South Industries Group and head of theChina National Space Administration, and later as theMinister of Civil Affairs.

Tang was born inShanghai, andtraces his ancestry toJianhu County inJiangsu province.^[1] He studied in Mechanical Engineering ofTongji University beginning in September 1981. After graduating, he worked atShanghai Volkswagen as a technician, Director of its Industrial Engineering Branch, and Manager of Planning and Development. Later he was appointed as the manager ofShanghai ZF Steering Co., Ltd. and Vice President ofShanghai Automotive Industry Corporation. In 2001, he was appointed as the Chairman ofShanghai Electric.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Tang was appointed as the Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, who was responsible for industry, agricultural, commercial, tourism, power production, and safe production.^[2] He was the youngest Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, and dubbed a "political star" withLu Hao, who was appointed as the Deputy Mayor of Beijing at aged 35 in the same year.^[3] In 2008, he was re-elected as the Deputy Mayor, who was responsible for foreign affairs, foreign trade and economic cooperation, foreign investment, Hong Kong, Macao affairs, ethnic and religious affairs, and Overseas Chinese affairs.^[4]

In 2011, he was appointed as the General Manager ofChina South Industries Group, and President since 2013.^[5][6] In 2017, Tang was named the Vice Minister of theMinistry of Industry and Information Technology, Administrator ofChina National Space Administration, Chairman ofChina Atomic Energy Authority, and Director of theState Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.^[7]

In December 2017, Tang was appointed as the deputy party chief ofFujian, and he was appointed as the Governor in January 2018.^[8] On 2 July 2020, he was appointed as deputy secretary of the party group of the National Development and Reform Commission; he also served as one of the deputy ministers in charge of theNational Development and Reform Commission. On 28 February 2022, he becameminister of Civil Affairs, succeedingLi Jiheng.^[9]

Tang was an alternate of the19thCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and is a member of the20th Central Committee.^{[citation needed]}

On 28 October 2023, he was appointed as theParty Secretary of Shanxi.^[10] He was succeeded as minister of Civil Affairs byLu Zhiyuan on 29 December 2023.^[11]

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• Deputy Communist Party secretaries of Fujian
• Directors of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress

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