The secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Hunan 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 Hunan.
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 Hunan 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 Hunan 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 Shen Xiaoming, who took office on 14 March 2023.
List of party secretaries ImageName (English)Name (Chinese)Term startTerm endHuang KechengAugust 1949October 1952Jin MingOctober 1952October 1953Zhou XiaozhouOctober 1953March 1960Zhang PinghuaMarch 1960October 1970Hua GuofengOctober 1970September 1977Mao ZhiyongSeptember 1977May 1988Xiong QingquanMay 1988September 1993Wang MaolinSeptember 1993October 1998Yang ZhengwuOctober 1998December 2005Zhang ChunxianDecember 2005April 2010Zhou QiangApril 2010March 2013Xu ShoushengMarch 2013August 2016Du JiahaoAugust 2016November 2020Xu DazheNovember 2020October 2021Zhang QingweiOctober 2021March 2023Shen XiaomingMarch 2023
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