The secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Chongqing 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 Chongqing.
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 Chongqing 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 Chongqing Municipal Committee, and since at least 2007, 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 Yuan Jiajun, a member of the CCP Politburo, who took office on 9 December 2022.
List of party secretaries ImageNameTerm startTerm end1Chen Xilian (陈锡联) (1915–1999)194919502Zhang Linzhi (张霖之) (1908–1967)195019523Cao Diqiu (曹荻秋) (1909–1976)195219544Yan Hongyan (阎红彦) (1909–1967)195619595Ren Baige (任白戈) (1906–1986)195919676Lan Yinong (蓝亦农) (1919–2008)196719687Duan Siying (段思英) (1917–2007)196819698He Yunfeng (何云峰) (1922–2013)196919739Lu Dadong (鲁大东) (1915–1998)1973197710Qian Min (钱敏) (1915–2016)1977197811Ding Changhe (丁长河) (born 1934)1978198012Yu Hanqing (于汉卿) (1929–2011)1980198513Liao Bokang (廖伯康) (born 1924)1985198814Xiao Yang (肖秧) (1929–1998)1988199315Sun Tongchuan (孙同川) (born 1940)1993199516Zhang Delin (张德邻) (born 1939)October 1995June 199917He Guoqiang (贺国强) (born 1943)June 1999October 200218Huang Zhendong (黄镇东) (born 1941)October 2002December 200519Wang Yang (汪洋) (born 1955)24 December 200530 November 200720Bo Xilai (薄熙来) (born 1949)30 November 200715 March 201221Zhang Dejiang (张德江) (born 1946)15 March 201220 November 201222Sun Zhengcai (孙政才) (born 1963)20 November 201214 July 201723Chen Min'er (陈敏尔) (born 1960)15 July 20178 December 202224Yuan Jiajun (袁家军) (born 1962)8 December 2022Incumbent
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