Director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party

The director of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The director oversees the daily operations of the CCP Central Committee.

Although the General Office's business is often not overtly political, the directors have historically had close connections with the CCP's top leaders, and usually join the Politburo or the Secretariat after their period leading the General Office. The director of the General office has been informally referred to as the "Danei Zongguan" (), roughly translated as "the gatekeeper". While the director of the General Office is sometimes referred to as an analogue to the party General Secretary's "Chief of Staff", the general secretary also maintains a personal staff as part of the Office of the General Secretary, whose director may also, but not necessarily, conterminously hold the position of director of the General Office.

The current director of the General Office is Cai Qi, who is the fifth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

List of directors

Director of the General Office of the Central Secretariat

+NameStartEndLi Fuchun1942October 1945Yang ShangkunOctober 1945May 1948

Director of the General Office of the Central Committee

+NameStartEndYang ShangkunMay 1948November 1965Wang DongxingNovember 1965December 1978Yao YilinDecember 1978April 1982Hu QiliApril 1982June 1983Qiao ShiJune 1983April 1984Wang ZhaoguoApril 1984April 1986Wen JiabaoApril 1986March 1993Zeng QinghongMarch 1993March 1999Wang GangMarch 1999September 2007Ling Jihua19 September 200731 August 2012Li Zhanshu31 August 2012November 2015Ding Xuexiang15 November 2017March 2023Cai QiMarch 2023Incumbent

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