Party Secretary of Guizhou

The secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Guizhou 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 Guizhou.

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 Guizhou 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 Guizhou Provincial Committee, and is usually a member of the CCP Central Committee. 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 Xu Lin, who took office on 9 December 2022.

List of party secretaries ImageName (English)Name (Chinese)Term startTerm endSu ZhenhuaFebruary 1949May 1954Zhou LinDecember 1954October 1964Li DazhangNovember 1964April 1965Jia QiyunMay 1965January 1967Li ZaihanDecember 1967October 1969Lan YinongOctober 1969September 1973Lu RuilinSeptember 1973February 1977Ma LiFebruary 1977September 1979Chi BiqingSeptember 1979March 1985Zhu HouzeApril 1985July 1985Hu JintaoJuly 1985December 1988Liu ZhengweiDecember 1988July 1993Liu FangrenJuly 1993January 2001Qian YunluJanuary 2001December 2005Shi ZongyuanDecember 2005August 2010Li Zhanshu8 August 201018 July 2012Zhao Kezhi18 July 201231 July 2015Chen Min'er31 July 201515 July 2017Sun Zhigang15 July 201720 November 2020Shen Yiqin20 November 20209 December 2022Xu Lin9 December 2022Incumbent

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