Editing Shenzhen (section)

=== Structure ===
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!Title
| style="text-align:center;" |'''[[Party Secretary of Shenzhen|CCP Committee Secretary]]'''
| style="text-align:center;" |'''SMPC Chairman'''
| style="text-align:center;" |'''[[Mayor of Shenzhen|Mayor]]'''
| style="text-align:center;" |'''Shenzhen [[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference|CPPCC]] Chairman'''
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!Name
|[[Meng Fanli]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ldzl.people.com.cn/dfzlk/front/personPage6333.htm|script-title=zh:王伟中 简历|publisher=人民网地方领导资料库|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818214144/http://ldzl.people.com.cn/dfzlk/front/personPage6333.htm|archive-date=2017-08-18|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Luo Wenzhi<ref>{{cite web|url=http://district.ce.cn/newarea/sddy/201506/04/t20150604_5549724.shtml|script-title=zh:深圳新一届市人大常委会主任、副主任、秘书长名单和简历|publisher=中国经济网|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818174449/http://district.ce.cn/newarea/sddy/201506/04/t20150604_5549724.shtml|archive-date=2017-08-18|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Qin Weizhong<ref>{{Cite web|title=Qin Weizhong-Shenzhen Government Online|url=http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/govt/officials/qinwz/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=sz.gov.cn|archive-date=1 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501225938/http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/govt/officials/qinwz/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Lin Jie<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/201506/02/t20150602_5522607.shtml|script-title=zh:戴北方当选深圳市政协主席|publisher=中国经济网|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818173619/http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/201506/02/t20150602_5522607.shtml|archive-date=2017-08-18|access-date=2017-08-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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![[Ancestral home (Chinese)|Ancestral home]]
|[[Linyi]], [[Shandong]]
|[[Foshan]], [[Guangdong]]
|[[Yulin, Guangxi]]
|[[Yingde]], [[Guangdong]]
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!Born
|{{Birth year and age|1965|09}}
|{{Birth year and age|1960|08}}
|{{Birth year and age|1971|07}}
|{{Birth year and age|1963|04}}
|-
!Assumed office
|April 2022
|January 2019
|April 2021
|September 2020
|}
Like all [[Politics of China|governing institutions in mainland China]], Shenzhen has a parallel party-government system,<ref name="PoliticalSystem">{{cite web|last1=Lawrence|first1=Susan|last2=Martin|first2=Michael|date=20 March 2013|title=Understanding China's Political System|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41007.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108131300/http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41007.pdf|archive-date=8 January 2012|access-date=28 September 2019|website=Federation of American Scientists|publisher=Congressional Research Service}}</ref> in which the [[Party Secretary of Shenzhen|secretary]] of the [[Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP Shenzhen Municipal Committee]] outranks the [[Mayor of Shenzhen|Mayor]].<ref>{{cite news|date=23 January 2007|script-title=zh:党委书记权力究竟有多大？|language=zh-cn|trans-title=How much power does a Party Secretary really have?|publisher=[[People's Daily]] Press|url=http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/30178/5316277.html|url-status=live|access-date=29 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702211524/http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/30178/5316277.html|archive-date=2 July 2018|script-work=zh:人民论坛}}</ref> The CCP committee acts as the top policy-formulation body, and is typically composed of 12 members (including the secretary).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Qin Weizhong-Shenzhen Government Online|url=http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/govt/officials/qinwz/|access-date=2021-05-01|website=sz.gov.cn|archive-date=1 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501225938/http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/govt/officials/qinwz/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Despite being a [[Sub-provincial division|sub-provincial city]], Shenzhen as a SEZ still wields a lot of autonomy from the central government.<ref name="szmc" /><ref name="szmc2" /> In addition to being promoted to a sub-provincial city, the [[National People's Congress]] (NPC) in 1981 granted legislative powers to Shenzhen and other Special Economic Zones, giving the city the privilege to make its own laws and regulations.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Qin|first=Zhen|date=2009-04-14|title=经济特区授权立法有关情况综述|work=中国人大网|url=http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/zt/qt/dfrd30year/2009-04/14/content_1497664.htm|access-date=2021-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106011043/http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/zt/qt/dfrd30year/2009-04/14/content_1497664.htm|archive-date=2011-11-06}}</ref> The [[Standing Committee of the National People's Congress|Standing Committee of the NPC]] also granted Shenzhen voted and passed the "Decision on Authorizing the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress and its Standing Committee and the [[Shenzhen Municipal People's Government]] to respectively formulate laws and regulations for implementation in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone" in order to give fully strengthen Shenzhen's legislative powers without interference from the central government.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bin|first=Zhuanghao|date=2009-11-25|title=全国人大授予深圳特区立法权|work=深圳新闻网|url=http://www.sznews.com/zhuanti/content/2009-11/25/content_4208744.htm|access-date=2021-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904141023/http://www.sznews.com/zhuanti/content/2009-11/25/content_4208744.htm|archive-date=2014-09-04}}</ref>