Shi Taifeng

Shi Taifeng
石泰峰
First Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Assumed office
10 March 2023
ChairmanWang Huning
Preceded byZhang Qingli
Head of the United Front Work Department
Assumed office
27 October 2022
DeputyChen Xiaojiang (Executive)
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded byYou Quan
President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
In office
May 2022 – 28 December 2022
Preceded byXie Fuzhan
Succeeded byGao Xiang
Communist Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia
In office
25 October 2019 – 30 April 2022
Preceded byLi Jiheng
Succeeded bySun Shaocheng
Communist Party Secretary of Ningxia
In office
26 April 2017 – 25 October 2019
Preceded byLi Jianhua
Succeeded byChen Run'er
Governor of Jiangsu
In office
30 December 2015 – 31 May 2017
Preceded byLi Xueyong
Succeeded byWu Zhenglong
Personal details
BornSeptember 1956 (age 68)
Yushe County, Shanxi, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materPeking University

Shi Taifeng (Chinese: 石泰峰; pinyin: Shí Tàifēng; born September 1956) is a Chinese politician currently serving as the head of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the first-ranking vice chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He is additionally a member of the CCP Politburo and a secretary of the CCP Secretariat.

Originally from Shanxi province, Shi spent part of his career at the Central Party School. He has served as the Deputy Party secretary of Jiangsu from 2011 to 2015. From 2014 to 2016, he has served as the Communist Party secretary of Suzhou, and as the governor of Jiangsu from 2015 to 2017. He was then moved to Ningxia, where he served as the CCP secretary from 2017 to 2019, and later to Inner Mongolia, where he served as the CCP secretary from 2019 to 2022. He also briefly served as the President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2022. He became a member of the Politburo and head of the UFWD in 2022. He was further promoted as the first-ranking CPPCC vice chairperson in 2023.


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