The Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced Chen Xuyuan as its new president Thursday.
The 63-year-old Chen was elected president of the CFA during its 11th membership conference at the Xianghe National Football Training Center in north China's Hebei Province.
Three experienced football professionals, Du Zhaocai, Gao Hongbo and Sun Wen, were voted as CFA vice presidents.
Chen, formerly president of Shanghai International Port Group, which owns the Chinese Super League (CSL) club Shanghai SIPG, has been working as head of the preparation team for the CFA election since May 24 this year.
Du, 59, serves as deputy minister of China's State General Administration of Sport and is also a FIFA council member and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Referees Committee chairman. He has been working in the CFA since July 2017.
Gao Hongbo speaks during a China League One press conference in southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 21, 2019. /VCG Photo
Gao, 53, is a former Chinese international footballer and has twice served as the head coach of the Chinese men's national team, from 2009 to 2011 and again in 2016.
Sun, 46, was the captain of the Chinese women's national team and voted FIFA Female Player of the Century in 2000. She now serves as director of the women's youth training department of the CFA.
Sun Wen poses for a FIFA Women's World Cup portrait in Paris, France, December 8, 2018. /VCG Photo
In addition to the new president and vice presidents, the new 35-member executive committee elected by the conference includes representatives from CSL clubs, media, schools, local football associations and other football-related sectors.
The new leadership of China's football governing body has vowed to carry out the football reform plan published by the Chinese government in 2015, in which the country would aim to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in the short term and become a footballing powerhouse by 2050 in the long term.