Liao Guoxun

Liao was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in February 1963. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he was accepted to Guizhou Normal University, where he majored in chemistry.

After graduating in August 1983, he was dispatched to Kaili No. 4 High School as a teacher and deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee. Liao became involved in politics in January 1986, when he was transferred to the Organization Department of CPC Qiandongnan Prefecture Committee. By June 2007 when he was appointed deputy party chief and later party chief of Tongren, he has served in various posts in the General Office of CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee. In April 2012, he was elected a member the Standing Committee of CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee at the First session of the 11th CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee, a position at vice-ministerial level.

In April 2015, he was transferred to east China's Zhejiang province and appointed head of the Organization Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and a member its Standing Committee.

A year and a half later, he was transferred to the neighboring direct-administered municipality Shanghai and appointed a member the Standing Committee of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and secretary of its Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's agency in charge of anti-corruption efforts.[3] On January 28, 2018, he was unanimously chosen as head of the newly founded Shanghai Supervisory Commission, the government's agency in charge of anti-corruption efforts.[4] On February 28, 2020, he was promoted to become deputy party chief of Shanghai, a position he held until the end of August 2020.[5]

On August 31, 2020, he was appointed deputy party chief of north China's Tianjin municipality.[6] He was named acting mayor on September 3 and was installed as mayor on September 16.