Party Secretary of Tianjin

The secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Tianjin Municipal 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 Tianjin.

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 Tianjin Municipal Committee, but the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government. The secretary leads the Standing Committee of the Tianjin Municipal Committee, and since at least 2002, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo. The secretary leads the work of the Municipal Committee and its Standing Committee. The secretary is outranks the mayor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee.

The current secretary is Chen Min'er, a member of the CCP Politburo, who took office on 8 December 2022.

List of party secretaries ImageNameTerm startTerm end1Huang KechengJanuary 1949June 19492Huang JingJune 1949April 19533Huang HuoqingApril 1953June 19584Wan XiaotangJune 1958September 19665Xie XuegongJanuary 1967June 19786Lin HujiaJune 1978October 19787Chen WeidaOctober 1978October 19848Ni ZhifuOctober 1984September 19879Li RuihuanSeptember 1987October 198910Tan ShaowenOctober 1989February 1993–Nie BichuFebruary 1993March 199311Gao DezhanMarch 199322 August 199712Zhang Lichang22 August 199725 March 200713Zhang Gaoli25 March 200721 November 201214Sun Chunlan21 November 201230 December 2014–Huang Xingguo30 December 20141 September 201615Li Hongzhong1 September 20168 December 202216Chen Min'er8 December 2022Incumbent

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