Guo Ningning

Guo Ningning (born July 1970) is a Chinese politician and banker currently serving as communist party secretary of Fuzhou and previously as vice-governor of southeast China's Fujian province. Guo has been tipped as a rising star in the "7th Generation" of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Biography
Guo was born in July 1970 in Shenyang, Liaoning, and graduated from the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.

After university, she served in several posts in the Bank of China before serving as vice-president of the Agricultural Bank of China in June 2016. She is the first female vice-president of the Agricultural Bank of China since it was established in 1951.

In October 2018, she was transferred to Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian province, where she became a member of the CCP's Fujian Provincial Committee. On 23 November 2018, Guo was appointed vice-governor of Fujian at the Seventh Meeting of the 13th Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Fujian. She became the youngest female provincial-ranked level official in Chinese mainland.

In 2020, Guo participated in an online campaign to promote Fujian's seafood and ate an eel on a livestream that got more than one million views.

In October 2021, Guo was elevated to executive vice-governor of Fujian and was admitted to member of the CCP Fujian Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. On 6 May 2024, she succeeded Lin Baojin as party secretary of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province.

Recognition
In 2021, she was included in the Time 100 Next list.