Xǔ Guāng

Xu Guang (; born January 1960) is a Chinese politician and senior engineer. He has served in various government and industrial leadership roles in Guangdong Province and was most recently Director of the Social Development Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress.

Biography Xu was born in Shantou, Guangdong. He began working in 1976 in Luotian County, Hubei Province. From 1978 to 1982, he studied physics at the Department of Physics, Central China Normal University. He earned a master's degree in physics from the same university in 1988. From 1982 to 1985, Xu was a teacher at Huanggang Normal College in Hubei. In 1988, he began working at China-Europe Electronics in Huizhou, Guangdong, eventually rising to management positions.

Between 1991 and 2001, he served in various leadership roles in Huizhou's industrial sector, including General Manager of Huizhou Industrial Development Corporation and Chairman of Desay Group. In September 2001, Xu was appointed Vice Mayor of Huizhou. He later served as a member of the Huizhou Municipal Committee, Deputy Mayor, and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Daya Bay Development Zone.

From 2011 to 2014, Xu was appointed Mayor and later Party Secretary of Chaozhou. In 2014, he became Party Secretary of Maoming and Chairman of the Maoming Municipal People's Congress. In 2017, Xu was appointed chairman and Party Secretary of Guangdong Guangsheng Asset Management Company.