Chen Gang (Chinese: 陈刚; born April 1965) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Party Secretary of Guangxi. Previously he served as Chairperson of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress and Party Secretary of Qinghai. He also served as Party Secretary of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He spent much of his career in Beijing, before being transferred to Guizhou as party chief of Guiyang. He then served as Party Secretary of the Xiong'an New Area and Vice Governor of Hebei, and a member of the Hebei provincial party standing committee.

Chen was born in Gaoyou, Jiangsu province, near Yangzhou. He attended Yangzhou Normal College (now Yangzhou University) between 1980 and 1984, where he studied chemistry. He then attended graduate school at Harbin Institute of Technology, majoring in applied chemistry and polymer materials. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1986. In 1987, he began studying for his doctorate degree in inorganic chemistry at Peking University. Beginning in 1990, he worked at the Beijing Glass Research Institute. In July 1994, he was promoted to deputy director of the research institute, and vice president at Beijing Yiqing Group. In July 2000, he became the deputy head of the commission on foreign trade and commerce of Beijing. In 2003, he took on his first political office, becoming deputy party chief of Chaoyang District, then district governor (confirmed in January 2004).

In October 2006, he was named party chief of Chaoyang District; in July 2012 he was named to the Beijing Party Standing Committee, along with, by coincidence, another person with an identical name, who was vice mayor. To disambiguate the two at routine meetings, Chen Gang (1966) was known as "Chen Gang (government)", and Chen Gang (1965) was known as "Chen Gang (Chaoyang District)". In June 2013 he was transferred to Guizhou to serve on the provincial standing committee, and then he was named party chief of the provincial capital Guiyang in 2013. In Guiyang, Chen was known for experimenting with policies that aimed to transform Guiyang and its surrounding areas from an agrarian backwater to a cloud computing hub.^[1]

In 2017, Chen was appointed Party Secretary of the Xiong'an New Area, a vast area of development assigned by the state to supplement the growth of the Beijing metropolitan region. He was also made Vice Governor and concurrently a member of the Hebei provincial party standing committee.^[2]

Chen was First Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in February 2021, in addition to serving as vice president.^[3]

Chen was made Party Secretary of Qinghai in January 2023, concurrently serving as Chairperson of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress.^[4]^[5]

On 31 December 2024, chen was chosen as Party Secretary of Guangxi, replacing Liu Ning.^[6]^[7]

^ "陈刚简历". City of Guiyang. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
^ 陈刚任雄安新区临时党委书记曾任北京朝阳区委书记(图). Sohu (in Chinese). June 3, 2017. Archived from the original on June 3, 2017. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
^ 陈刚同志任中华全国总工会党组书记. acftu.org (in Chinese). 2020-12-27. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
^ 青海省委主要负责同志职务调整陈刚任青海省委书记-新华网. www.news.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2023-01-07. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
^ 陈刚当选青海省人大常委会主任吴晓军当选青海省省长. news.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
^ 河南、广西2省区党委主要负责同志职务调整. news.cn (in Chinese). 2024-12-31. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
^ "CPC appoints new Party chiefs for Henan, Guangxi". Chinadaily.com. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2025.

Government offices
Preceded by Li Shixiang	Governor of Chaoyang District 2003–2006	Succeeded by Cheng Lianyuan
New title	Director of the Management Committee of Xiong'an New Area 2017–2020	Succeeded by Zhang Guohua (politician, born 1964)
Party political offices
Preceded by Li Shixiang	Party Secretary of Chaoyang District 2006–2012	Succeeded by Cheng Lianyuan
Preceded by Li Jun	Party Secretary of Guiyang 2013–2017	Succeeded by Li Zaiyong
Preceded by Yuan Tongli [zh]	Secretary of the Xiong'an New Area Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 2017	Succeeded by Zhang Guohua (politician, born 1964)
Preceded by Zhao Yide	Specifically-designated Deputy Party Secretary of Hebei 2020	Succeeded by Lian Yimin
Preceded by Xin Changxing	Party Secretary of Qinghai 2023–2024	Succeeded by Wu Xiaojun
Preceded by Liu Ning	Party Secretary of Guangxi 2024–present	Incumbent
Civic offices
Preceded by Li Yufu	First Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions 2021–2023	Succeeded by Xu Liuping [zh]
Assembly seats
Preceded by Xin Changxing	Chairperson of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress 2023–2025	Succeeded by Wu Xiaojun