Shi entered the workforce in July 1990, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in June 1993. She served in various posts in Zhabei District Committee of the Communist Youth League of China before serving as director and party branch secretary of Zhabei District Economic Committee in 2003. She became vice governor of Nanhui District in 2006 before being assigned to the similar position in Hongkou District in 2009. She was deputy communist party secretary of Hongkou District in 2011, but having held the position for only two years. In 2013, she was appointed director and party branch secretary of Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau. She rose to become communist party secretary of Putuo District in April 2015.[2] In May 2017, she was promoted to be a member of the standing committee of the CCP Shanghai Municipal Committee, the city's top authority, concurrently holding the post of head of the United Front Work Department of CCP Shanghai Municipal Committee.[3]
Career in Jiangxi
In May 2018, Shi was transferred to central China's Jiangxi province, where she was a member of the standing committee of the CCP Jiangxi Provincial Committee and head of the Propaganda Department of CCP Jiangxi Provincial Committee.[4]
Career in Sichuan
On 29 August 2021, Shi was transferred again to southwest China's Sichuan province and appointed communist party secretary of the capital city of Chengdu, the top political position in the city, and a member of the standing committee of the CCP Sichuan Provincial Committee, the province's top authority.[5] She was China's youngest top official in the provincial capital and was at the time the youngest member of a CCP Provincial Standing Committee until the October 2021 appointment of Yang Fasen.[6][7]
On 28 June 2024, Shi was appointed party branch secretary of Sichuan.[8]
On 4 July 2024, Shi rose to become the acting governor of Sichuan,[9] and was elected as the governor of Sichuan on 31 July 2024.[10]
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Government offices
Preceded by
Ma Yili
Director of Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau 2013–2015
