According to the Southern Plus client, on the morning of the designated day, the Sixth Session of the 15th People's Congress of Shantou City convened. Chen Tao was elected as the Mayor of the People's Government of Shantou City through the election at the conference. Chen Tao took the constitutional oath.

Public information shows that Chen Tao, male, Han Chinese, born in , is from Qidong, Jiangsu. He holds a master's degree while working and joined the Communist Party of China in . He started working in . Chen Tao has long been working in Jiangsu Province, serving as the Deputy Director of the Foreign Investment Division, Deputy Director of the Overseas Investment Division, Director of the Foreign Investment Division, and Director of the International Service Outsourcing Office of the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of Jiangsu Province. In , Chen Tao was appointed as the Director of the Foreign Investment Division (Service Outsourcing Division) of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce, and in , he became the Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce. In , Chen Tao was appointed as the Deputy Mayor of the Huai'an Municipal Government, later serving as the Standing Committee Member of the Huai'an Municipal Party Committee, Minister of the Propaganda Department, Member of the Party Leadership Group of the Municipal Government, Standing Committee Member of the Huai'an Municipal Party Committee, and Minister of the United Front Work Department. In , Chen Tao became the Standing Committee Member of the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department. From to his new appointment, he served as the Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce.

On a certain date, the Standing Committee of the Shantou Municipal People's Congress of the 15th Guangdong Province held its 26th session, where it reviewed and voted to accept the resignation of Zeng Fengbao from the position of Mayor of the Shantou Municipal People's Government. The meeting decided to appoint Chen Tao as the Deputy Mayor and Acting Mayor of the Shantou Municipal People's Government. Previously, Zeng Fengbao had assumed the position of Secretary of the Jieyang Municipal Party Committee.

According to the introduction, Shantou is located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province, at the southern end of the Hanjiang River Delta, bordering Chaozhou to the north, Jieyang to the west, and facing the South China Sea to the southeast, with an annual regional GDP of . billion yuan.