Luo Wenzhi

Luo Wenzhi (Chinese: 骆文智; born August 1960) is a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress. He is originally from Foshan, Guangdong Province. Luo joined the Chinese Communist Party in August 1985 and holds a master's degree in economics. He graduated from the School of Economics at Jinan University.

Luo began working in August 1977 as a sent-down youth in Guangming Town, Bao'an County, Guangdong. He later studied finance and economics at Jinan University from 1982 to 1984, and pursued further studies at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law from 1990 to 1992. He earned a master's degree in economics in 1998.^[1]

Luo worked for many years in the Shenzhen municipal government, particularly in the Finance Bureau, rising from section officer to department head. In the late 1990s, he served as vice mayor of Yantian District in Shenzhen. He later transferred to Chaozhou, where he was appointed deputy mayor and then mayor from 2003 to 2005. He subsequently served as Party Secretary of Chaozhou and chairman of the local People's Congress from 2005 to 2011.^[2]

From 2011 to 2018, Luo held a series of provincial roles. He was appointed Party Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Population and Family Planning Commission in 2011, and later became Director and Party Secretary of the Guangdong Health and Family Planning Commission in 2013. In 2016, he became Director of the Guangdong Food and Drug Administration, and in 2018, he was named Party Secretary of the Guangdong Market Supervision Administration.^[3] In 2019, Luo was appointed Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress, a position he held until his resignation in February 2024.^[4]