List of Presidents of the Republic of China (Eastern Manifest Destiny)

President of the Republic of China 中華民國總統
Incumbent Li Keqiang since 1 January 2009
Style	His Excellency Mr. President
Residence	Unitarian Mansion, Nanjing, China
Term length	4 years; renewable up to 8 years
Inaugural holder	Sun Li-jen
Formation	January 1st 1924
Deputy	Premier

The President of the Republic of China is the highest position in the Chinese government. It was created during the drafting of the new Chinese Constitution following the ending of the Chinese Civil War and collapse of the old nationalist regime. 

Article 20 Section 7 of the Constitution of the Republic of China clearly states every 4 years, the position of President and Premier will come up for election. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, then the Legislative Yuan will elect the next president and premier. 

If a president dies in office, then the Premier will become acting president until the end of the late president's current term. If both the President and Premier die, then the Secretary of the Interior becomes acting president and the Minister of Finance becomes Premier. 

No president and premier may serve more than 10 consecutive years unless they were acting president or premier due to the death of the incumbent president and/or premier. 

The inaugural holder of the presidency was Sun Li-jen. The incumbent is Li Keqiang, who was elected on November 3, 2009. There are currently 24 presidents who served since the creation of the position in 1924. 

The presidency is constructed in a similar way to the United States, with several notable differences. 

From 1921 until 1924, the highest position in the Chinese government was known President-General and was occupied by Sun Yat-sen. 

The following is list of presidents from the 1924 until the present day:

#	Image	Name	Term	Notes
1		Sun Li-jen	1 January 1924 - 31 December 1932	Youngest president of China.
2		Duan Qirui	1 January 1933 - 2 November 1936	The only president to die in office of natural causes.
3		Deng Xiaoping	10 November  1936 - 31 December 1948	Wartime president; the only to serve 3 terms.
4		Bai Chongxi	1 January 1949 - 31 December  1956	First and only Muslim president of China.
5		Mao Zedong	1 January 1957 - 31 December  1964	First President of China to visit the United States of America.
6		Zhou Enlai	1 January 1965 - 21 September 1968	Only president to resign from office.
7		Zhang Xueliang	22 September 1968 - 31 December 1976	First of 2 unelected presidents
8		Du Yuming	1 January 1977 - 5 May 1979	Assassinated
9		Hua Guofeng	10 May 1979 - 31 December 1980	Was the Minister of the Interior under President Da until his assassination on 5 May 1979; Da's Premier Saifuddin Azizi was also killed during the event.
10		Jiang Zemin	1 January 1981 - 31 December 1988	Still living.
11		Wen Jiabao	1 January 1989 - 31 December  1996	First president to visit the Republic of Malaysia.
12		Leung Chun-ying	1 January 1997- 31 December 2004	Only president who was elected from a minor political party.
13		Ma Ying-Jeou	1 January 2005 31 December - 2008	Had lowest approval rating of all presidents: 29% approval rating. Mainly due to his support of Malaysian-Chinese Nationalist guerrillas and also his praise of Chiang Kai-shek.
14		Li Keqiang	1 January 2009 - present	Incumbent