This is a list of the heads of state of the Republic of China (ROC) since 1912 and the state representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1949.
List of presidents of the Republic (since 1912)
This is a list of the presidents of the Republic of China (ROC) (1912–present). The Republic of China president is called 總統 (Zǒngtǒng, "President"), and from 1912–1928, 大總統 (Dàzǒngtǒng, "Grand President").
Since 1949, the de facto territory of the ROC is reduced to Taiwan and its surrounding islands, the former previously ruled by Japan from 1895 to 1945, no longer governing mainland China. It continued to represent China in the United Nations until it was expelled on 25 October 1971 and diplomatically by the United States government until 1 January 1979. The President of the ROC is also known as the President of Taiwan due to the territory it governs.
All the names on this list follow the Oriental convention with the family name first and given name second.
Provisional Government:
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Beiyang Government:
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Nationalist to Constitutional Government:
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Presidents of the Provisional Government
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! No.
! Portrait
! width=18% |Name<br />
! colspan=2 |Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |Vice President
! Assembly<br />(elected)
|-
! style="background:#031096; color:white;"| 1
| 100px
| align=center| Sun Yat-sen<br /><!--The most common name he is known in Chinese is Sun Zhongshan 孫中山. While Sun-Yat-sen corresponds to 孫逸仙, but that is not the name in Chinese he is most known as. The previous name, Sun Wen 孫文, was his "big name"/school name, but this is not his most common name in Chinese--><br />
| 1 January 1912 || 10 March 1912
| Tongmenghui
| bgcolor="" |
| Li Yuanhong<br />
| align="center"| Provisional (1911)
|-
! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 2
| 100px
| align=center| Yuan Shikai<br /><br />
| 10 March 1912 || 10 October 1913
| Beiyang clique
| bgcolor="" |
| Li Yuanhong<br />
| align="center"| Provisional (1912)
|-
|colspan=9 |
Presidents of the Beiyang Government
|-
! No.
! Portrait
! width=18% |Name<br />
! colspan=2 |Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |Vice President
! Assembly<br />(elected)
|-
! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 1
| 100px
| align=center| Yuan Shikai<br /><br />
| 10 October 1913 || 6 June 1916
| Beiyang clique
| bgcolor=#008000 |
| Li Yuanhong<br />
| rowspan=3| 1st (1913)
|-
! style="background:#008000; color:white;"| 2
| 100px
| align=center| Li Yuanhong<br /><br />
| 7 June 1916 || 17 July 1917
| Progressive Party
| bgcolor=#CD853F|
| Feng Guozhang<br />
|-
! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| —
| 100px
| align=center| Feng Guozhang<br /><br /><br />(acting)
| 17 July 1917 || 10 October 1918
| Zhili clique
| colspan=2| Vacant
|-
! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 3
| 100px
| align=center| Xu Shichang<br /><br />
| 10 October 1918 || 2 June 1922
| 2 June 1922 || 11 June 1922
| Communications Clique
| colspan=2| Vacant
|-
! style="background:#008000; color:white;"| (2)
| 100px
| align=center| Li Yuanhong<br /><br />
| 11 June 1922 || 13 June 1923
| 14 June 1923 || 10 October 1923
| Zhili clique
| colspan=2| Vacant
|-
! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 4
| 100px
| align=center| Cao Kun<br /><br />
| 10 October 1923 || 2 November 1924<br /><br />
| rowspan=2| 24 November 1924 || rowspan=2| 20 April 1926<br /><br /><br />(acting)
| Nonpartisan
| colspan=2| Vacant
|-
! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 6
| 100px
| align=center| Zhang Zuolin<br /><br />
| 18 June 1927 || 4 June 1928
| Fengtian clique
| colspan=2| Vacant
|-
|colspan=9 |
Chairmen of the Nationalist Government
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! No.
! Portrait
! width=18% |Name<br />
! colspan=2 |Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=3 |Assembly<br />(elected)
|-
! style="background:; color:white;"| —
| 100px
| align=center| Tan Yankai<br /><br />
| 7 February 1928 || 10 October 1928
| Kuomintang
| bgcolor="" |
| colspan=2| 2nd National Congress of Kuomintang<br />(4th plenum)
|-
! style="background:; color:white;"| —
| 100px
| align=center| Chiang Kai-shek<br /><br />
| 10 October 1928 || 15 December 1931 || rowspan=2| 1 August 1943 || rowspan=2| 20 May 1948
| rowspan=2| Kuomintang
|-
| bgcolor="" |
| colspan=2| 5th National Congress of Kuomintang<br />(11th plenum)
|-
|colspan=9|
Presidents after the 1947 Constitution
|-
! No.
! Portrait
! width=18% |Name<br />
! colspan=2 |Term of office
! Political party
! colspan=2 |Vice President
! Term<br />(elected)
|-
! style="background:; color:white;"| 1
| 100px
| Chiang Kai-shek<br /><br />
| 20 May 1948 || 21 January 1949
| Kuomintang
| bgcolor="" |
| Li Zongren <br />
| rowspan=5| 1 (1948)
|-
! style="background:; color:white;"| —
| 100px
| Li Zongren<br /><br />
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
! rowspan="2" style="background-color: #CCEEFF"| 4
| rowspan="2"| 100px
| rowspan="2" align="center"| Yang Shangkun<br /><br />
| width=10%| 8 April 1988
| width=10%| 27 March 1993
| VII
| Wang Zhen
| Deng Xiaoping<br />Jiang Zemin
|-
| colspan="5"|
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
! rowspan="3" style="background-color: #D8BFD8"| 5
| rowspan="3"| 100px
| rowspan="3" align="center"| Jiang Zemin<br /><br />
| width=10%| 27 March 1993
| width=10%| 15 March 1998
| VIII
| Rong Yiren
|rowspan="2"| Himself
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
| width=10%| 15 March 1998
| width=10%| 15 March 2003
| IX
| Hu Jintao
|-
| colspan="5"|
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
! rowspan="3" style="background-color: #CCFFCC"| 6
| rowspan="3"| 100px
| rowspan="3" align="center"| Hu Jintao<br /><br />
| width=10%| 15 March 2003
| width=10%| 15 March 2008
| X
| Zeng Qinghong
|rowspan="2"| Himself
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
| width=10%| 15 March 2008
| width=10%| 14 March 2013
| XI
| Xi Jinping
|-
| colspan="5"|
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
! rowspan="4" style="background-color: #FBCEB1" width=20| 7
| rowspan="4"| 100px
| rowspan="4" align="center"| Xi Jinping<br /><br />
| width=10%| 14 March 2013
| width=10%| 17 March 2018
| XII
| Li Yuanchao
| rowspan="3"| Himself
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
| width=10%| 17 March 2018
| width=10%| 10 March 2023
| XIII
| Wang Qishan
|- bgcolor=#EEEEEE
| width=10%| 10 March 2023
| width=10%| Incumbent
| XIV
| Han Zheng
|-
| colspan="5"|
|}
See also
- List of premiers of China