65438+On February 28th, 2007, the 42nd meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of Tianjin Municipal People's Congress accepted Dai Xianglong's request to resign as mayor of Tianjin, and decided that Huang Xingguo, executive vice mayor, was the acting mayor of Tianjin.

On October 28th, 2008, the first plenary session of the 15th Tianjin Municipal People's Congress elected Huang Xingguo as the mayor.