Party Secretary of Nanjing

The secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Nanjing 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 Nanjing.

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 Nanjing 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 Nanjing Municipal Committee. 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 Zhou Hongbo, who took office on 1 December 2024.

List of party secretaries After the Yangtze River Crossing campaign by the CCP on April 23, 1949, a total of 25 individuals have consecutively occupied the position of Secretary of the CCP Nanjing Municipal Committee. No.NameTook officeLeft officeNotes1Liu BochengMay 1949June 19492Su YuJune 1949May 19503Tang LiangMay 1950May 19504Ke QingshiAugust 1950October 19545Peng ChongOctober 1954September 19606Chen YangSeptember 1960January 19637Peng ChongJanuary 1963May 19668Yang GuangliMay 1966December 19709December 1970June 197410Wang ChubinJune 1974August 197511Chu JiangAugust 1975October 198112Liu LinOctober 1981September 198213Wang BingshiSeptember 1982February 198414Cheng WeigaoFebruary 1984July 198715July 1987February 199116Gu HaoFebruary 1991June 199517Wang WulongJune 1995October 200118Li YuanchaoOctober 2001April 200319Luo ZhijunApril 2003April 200820Zhu ShanluFebruary 2008March 201121Yang WeizeMarch 2011March 201522Huang LixinJanuary 2015October 201623Wu ZhenglongOctober 2016May 201724Zhang JinghuaJuly 2017April 202125Han LimingApril 20211 December 202426Zhou Hongbo1 December 2024Incumbent

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