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Gong Zheng

The latest news on Chinese politician Gong Zheng, including political stories and updates.

Born

4 Mar 1960

Industry

Politics

Job Title

Mayor of Shanghai

Passengers pass a mural in the arrivals hall of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, in south China’s Guangdong province, on February 23, 2026. Photo: Xinhua

Two Sessions 2026

China’s eastern, southern economic powerhouses vie for innovation leadership

Officials from Yangtze River Delta, Greater Bay Area outline ambitions after Xi Jinping calls on provincial economies to drive development.

6 Mar 2026 - 10:15PM

China GDP

China’s financial powerhouse Shanghai aims for 5% growth, ‘global influence’

3 Feb 2026 - 5:00PMvideocam

China property

Why Shanghai is buying small older flats to revive its ailing housing market

3 Feb 2026 - 3:51PM

Trending in China

China eatery owners use cancer-hit business rival’s payment QR code for day to raise funds

Well-liked 50-year-old who worked so hard ‘he had no time to go to the toilet’ feels love of fellow food sellers who raise US$2,900 in 24 hours.

22 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM

Kind restaurant owners on a food stall street in China united by using the QR payment code of a cancer-hit business rival to raise funds to help pay his medical bills. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/ews.cnr.cn

Greater Bay Area

How Shanghai leverages arts and events to fuel tourism and power economic growth

Surge in overseas tourists boosts financial and commercial hub’s GDP, which outpaces national growth for the first time in nearly a decade.

31 Oct 2025 - 10:51AM

Banking & finance

Shanghai to scrap all foreign investment limits on manufacturing

Overseas companies in EVs, telecoms, biotechnology and hospitals to gain full access to the Chinese market, mayor says.

12 Oct 2025 - 8:30PM

US-China tech war

For Nvidia, losing China’s AI market would be ‘tremendous loss’, CEO says

China’s AI market is likely to grow to US$50 billion in the next two to three years, Huang told US broadcaster CNBC.

7 May 2025 - 2:00PM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is working to preserve his company’s business in the world’s second-largest economy. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Nvidia denies China joint venture report after Jensen Huang’s whirlwind visit

The denial of joint venture plans comes as the US chip giant is trying to navigate its way through an intensifying US-China tech war.

29 Apr 2025 - 10:41PM

China's economic recovery

China vows punishments if business gripes are verified in investigation

In Beijing’s bid to realise ambitious economic growth goals for this year, steps are being taken to ensure local-level authorities are pulling their weight and not making matters worse for struggling businesses.

15 Mar 2024 - 6:48PM

China property

Shanghai’s commercial property landlords face pressure to lower rents

Owners of commercial properties in Shanghai are under pressure to cut rents to support restaurants and retailers facing the daunting task of sustaining their businesses amid lacklustre consumer demand.

12 Feb 2024 - 9:30AM

Nanjing Street, Shanghai’s main tourist and shopping street. Shanghai’s economic output expanded by 5 per cent last year, falling short of the 5.5 per cent goal the local government set at the beginning of 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE

Artificial intelligence

Ant Group inks partnership with Shanghai to help the city’s AI ambitions

Ant Group and the Shanghai municipal government have struck a partnership that would see the two parties deepen their collaboration in fields such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.

1 Feb 2024 - 8:40PM

The Huangpu River in Shanghai, on January 11, 2024. The city wants to foster an environment conducive to tech businesses. Photo: EPA-EFE

China's economic recovery

Tesla, Porsche chip in as Shanghai allays cross-border data flow ‘sore point’

China’s industrial and commercial hub of Shanghai is seeking to roll out a three-tiered cross-border data flow regulation by March in a bid to address a long-standing ‘sore point’ for foreign firms.

31 Jan 2024 - 4:43PMvideocam

Shanghai

Shanghai offers financing and land-use support to foreign investors

Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng said the policy initiative to support more foreign direct investments would buttress the city’s economic recovery efforts in 2024.

27 Jan 2024 - 4:19PM

China stock market

China’s stock market rout hurts more than fiction of Blossoms Shanghai

Today, not much resembles the reels in Blossoms Shanghai. China’s legion of 200 million retail investors can be forgiven for hankering for that gravity-defying bygone era of the 1990s.

27 Jan 2024 - 10:53AMvideocam

Banking & finance

Shanghai fails to achieve 5.5% economic growth target for 2023

The city’s GDP expanded 5 per cent last year as the global economy turned out to be weaker than expected, Mayor Gong Zheng told an annual session of the Shanghai People’s Congress on Tuesday.

23 Jan 2024 - 4:12PMvideocam

The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai’s financial district. The city attracted US$24 billion in foreign funds in 2023, rewriting a previous record set a year earlier, Gong says. Photo: EPA-EFE

China’s Communist Party

China’s premier, top officials pay tribute to late AI visionary Tang Xiao’ou

Li Qiang, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang among Chinese leaders paying respects to the leading facial recognition expert and SenseTime co-founder, who died Friday.

20 Dec 2023 - 11:39PMvideocam

US-China tech war

Shanghai taps miHoYo, SenseTime and SMEE among its inaugural 40 tech champions

Shanghai names 40 tech champions as city continues to bolster tech credentials amid central government support for strategic sectors.

5 Dec 2023 - 8:00PM

China stock market

Hong Kong leader John Lee pursues stronger economic ties with Shanghai at CIIE 2023

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has urged the strengthening of economic ties between Shanghai and Hong Kong to build world-class tech start-ups.

6 Nov 2023 - 12:22PM

This photo taken on Nov. 3, 2023 shows a city view of Shanghai at sunrise. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong economy

China’s commerce minister urges Hong Kong to use strengths to help firms expand

Commerce minister Wang Wentao says Hong Kong should cultivate new growth points in digitalisation and green trade.

6 Nov 2023 - 8:22AM

China property

Shanghai economic demand seen driven by US rate cuts in 2024: govt adviser

Shanghai’s economy, dealt a double blow by China’s troubled property sector and the nation’s tumbling stock market this year, could see better days in 2024 when the US is widely expected to lower interest rates, a government economic adviser said

24 Oct 2023 - 7:00AM

Electric & new energy vehicles

Shanghai mayor vows to attract more foreign firms like Tesla, Boston Scientific

Mayor Gong Zheng said more landmark deals are in the works as Shanghai tries to burnish its image as an international investment magnet.

15 Oct 2023 - 9:30PMvideocam

An aerial photo of Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory seen on September 26, 2023. Photo: Xinhua

Taiwan

Taipei mayor leads delegation to Shanghai as Beijing ramps up pressure on Taiwan

Rising KMT star Wayne Chiang says an annual forum is an opportunity to improve dialogue and stability.

29 Aug 2023 - 5:42PMvideocam

Taipei Mayor Wayne Chiang is leading a delegation to Shanghai to attend this year’s Shanghai-Taipei Twin City Forum. Photo: CNA

China's economic recovery

With lots of work to do, Shanghai urged to show ‘dragon’s head’ in investor push

Shanghai is inviting foreign businesses to invest in high-quality projects through an ‘global investment partner’ scheme, but the number of European firms with Asia-Pacific headquarters in China’s economic hub has dropped.

22 Jun 2023 - 8:00AMvideocam

Singapore

Singapore’s Lawrence Wong cements ties with China leaders in ‘timely’ visit

Lawrence Wong’s meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang indicates a mutual desire to push forward cooperation ‘driven at the senior levels’, one analyst notes

17 May 2023 - 6:42PM

Shanghai

Shanghai pledges more support for small businesses to boost economic recovery

Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng on Sunday said more economic sweeteners, such as tax cuts and government subsidies, are now in the works to address the problems faced by the city’s small businesses.

15 Jan 2023 - 9:38PM

Shanghai

Shanghai eyes 5.5 per cent consumption-led economic growth for 2023

Shanghai will strive to achieve economic growth of 5.5 per cent in 2023, despite the headwinds buffeting the global economy, according to Mayor Gong Zheng.

11 Jan 2023 - 3:30PM

Shanghai

Can ‘peanut’ e-coupon lottery save Shanghai’s Covid-hit retail economy?

Can 1 billion yuan (US$140.5 million) of e-coupons save Shanghai’s battered retail industry? It’s peanuts, but a good start nonetheless, analysts say.

4 Oct 2022 - 12:36PMvideocam

China’s 20th Party Congress

What does it take to get promoted in Chinese politics? Up-and-comers offer clues

Those with business or tech backgrounds, regional leadership experience and connections to Xi most likely to be promoted, observers say.

22 Sep 2022 - 6:00AMvideocam

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