The secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the secretary is the highest ranking post in Guangdong.
The secretary is officially appointed by the CCP Central Committee based on the recommendation of the CCP Organization Department, which is then approved by the Politburo and its Standing Committee. The secretary can be also appointed by a plenary meeting of the Guangdong Provincial Committee, but the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government. The secretary leads the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee, and since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo.[1] The secretary leads the work of the Provincial Committee and its Standing Committee. The secretary is outranks the governor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee.
The current secretary is Huang Kunming, a member of the CCP Politburo, who took office on 28 October 2022.
List of party secretaries
No. | Image | Name | Term start | Term end | Ref. |
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1 | ![]() |
Ye Jianying | August 1949 | July 1955 | [2] |
2 | ![]() |
Tao Zhu | July 1955 | February 1965 | [3] |
3 | ![]() |
Zhao Ziyang | February 1965 | March 1967 | [3] |
4 | ![]() |
Huang Yongsheng | February 1968 | November 1969 | [3] |
5 | ![]() |
Liu Xingyuan | November 1969 | December 1972 | [3] |
6 | ![]() |
Ding Sheng | December 1972 | December 1973 | [3] |
7 | ![]() |
Zhao Ziyang | April 1974 | October 1975 | [3] |
8 | ![]() |
Wei Guoqing | October 1975 | December 1978 | [3] |
9 | ![]() |
Xi Zhongxun | December 1978 | November 1980 | [3] |
10 | Ren Zhongyi | November 1980 | July 1985 | [3] | |
11 | Lin Ruo | July 1985 | January 1991 | [3] | |
12 | Xie Fei | January 1991 | March 1998 | [3] | |
13 | ![]() |
Li Changchun | March 1998 | November 2002 | [4] |
14 | ![]() |
Zhang Dejiang | 24 December 2002 | 1 December 2007 | [5] |
15 | ![]() |
Wang Yang | 1 December 2007 | 18 December 2012 | [6] |
16 | ![]() |
Hu Chunhua | 28 December 2012 | 28 October 2017 | [7][6] |
17 | ![]() |
Li Xi | 28 October 2017 | 28 October 2022 | [8] |
18 | ![]() |
Huang Kunming | 28 October 2022 | incumbent | [9] |
References
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- ^ 中华名人协会; 中国文学艺术界联合会; 中国中外名人文化硏究会 (1999). 中国人物年鉴 (in Chinese). Huayi Publishing House. p. 140. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
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- ^ a b "胡春华兼任广东省委书记汪洋卸任深情话别". politics.people.com.cn (in Chinese). 2012-12-19. Archived from the original on 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Blanchard, Ben (2012-10-12). "'Little Hu' may play a big role in China's political future". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25.
- ^ "广东召开全省领导干部会议,中央决定:李希兼任广东省委书记". Nanfang Daily (in Chinese). October 28, 2017. Archived from the original on February 19, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
- ^ "广东省委主要负责同志职务调整 黄坤明兼任广东省委书记". Xinhua (in Chinese). October 28, 2022. Archived from the original on November 20, 2022. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
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