The Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Gansu 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 Gansu.
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 Gansu 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 Gansu 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 outranks the governor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee.
The current secretary is Wu Xiaojun, who took office on 22 September 2026.
List of party secretaries ImageName (English)Name (Chinese)Term startTerm end Zhang DeshengJuly 1949June 1954Zhang ZhongliangJune 1954January 1961Wang FengJanuary 1961November 1966Hu JizongNovember 1966February 1967Xian HenghanFebruary 1971June 1977Song PingJune 1977January 1981 Feng JixinJanuary 1981March 1983Li ZiqiMarch 1983October 1990Gu JinchiOctober 1990September 1993Yan HaiwangSeptember 1993April 1998Sun YingApril 1998January 2001Song ZhaosuJanuary 2001August 2003Su RongAugust 2003July 2006Lu HaoJuly 2006December 2011Wang SanyunDecember 2011April 2017Lin DuoMarch 2017March 2021Yin HongMarch 2021December 2022Hu ChangshengDecember 2022September 2026Wu XiaojunSeptember 2026Incumbent
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