Zu Leiming

Zu Leiming (; born January 1967) is a Chinese hydraulic engineer and government official who serves as Vice Minister of Water Resources and a member of the ministry's Party Leadership Group. He is a professor-level senior engineer and has spent most of his career in China's national water resources administration.

Biography

Zu Leiming was born in January 1967 in Sihong County, Jiangsu. He began his professional career after graduating in August 1989 from Hohai University, where he studied water resources planning and utilization. While working, he later pursued postgraduate studies in hydraulic structural engineering at the Beijing graduate division of the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, earning a master's degree in engineering in 1997.

Zu joined the Ministry of Water Resources system early in his career and held a range of technical, research, and managerial positions. He worked with the Tianjin Luan River Water Diversion Project administration, including service as assistant director and as deputy commander of a major tunnel rehabilitation and reinforcement project. He subsequently served in policy and development research roles within the Ministry of Water Resources, advancing from section chief to director.

From December 2002, Zu successively served as deputy director and party committee member of the Ministry's Development Research Center and as deputy director-general of the Department of Construction and Management. In August 2012, he was appointed water resources construction and management inspection commissioner at the vice-ministerial level. He later became director-general of the Department of Construction and Management in June 2017.

In December 2025, Zu Leiming was appointed Vice Minister of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China. Upon assuming this position, he stepped down as director of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission.