It is officially elected by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress and is formally responsible to the ZPPC and its Standing Committee.

[1] Under the country's one-party system, the governor is subordinate to the secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Zhejiang Provincial People's Government was established on 29 July 1949.

[2] In March 1967, during the Cultural Revolution, Zhejiang entered military rule, with the establishment of the Zhejiang Provincial Military Control Committee of the People's Liberation Army in Hangzhou and the dissolution of the People's Committee.

In December 1979, the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government was re-established.