According to the Henan Daily client, on April 3, at the third meeting of the 16th People's Congress of Kaifeng City, Wu Haiyan was elected mayor of Kaifeng City People's Government, and Zhang Hongwei and Li Fusheng were elected deputy mayors of Kaifeng City People's Government.

Public information shows that Wu Haiyan, female, born in April 1973, is a graduate student of the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee and a member of the Communist Party of China.

Wu Haiyan has worked in Henan Province for a long time. In November 2012, he served as deputy secretary, deputy county magistrate and acting county magistrate of Sui County, Shangqiu City. In January 2016, he served as county magistrate.

In September 2021, Wu Haiyan was transferred to member of the Standing Committee of the Sanmenxia Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department. In December of that year, he was appointed as a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Government. In April 2023, he was appointed as Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department. In March this year, he was transferred to Kaifeng Municipal Party Committee. Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Municipal Government.

Governor of Chang 'an Street (WeChat ID:Capitalnews) noted that in June 2021, Wu Haiyan, then secretary of the county party committee and second-level inspector of Sui County, was awarded the title of "National Outstanding County Party Secretary" by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

According to reports, Wu Haiyan, who was the first secretary of the county party committee of Sui County, led his team members to visit 118 poor villages in 20 towns and villages in the county. After comprehensively understanding the situation, he decided to develop the industry according to local conditions and put forward the industrial poverty alleviation idea of "bamboo shoots in the south and pepper in the north", and explored a "four-in-one" health poverty alleviation model of prevention, service, reduction and protection.

In 2018, Sui County was successfully lifted out of poverty. By the end of 2020, nearly 100,000 poor people in the county were all lifted out of poverty. In February 2021, the Sui County County Party Committee was awarded the National Advanced Collective in Poverty Alleviation by the Party Central Committee and the State Council.