The secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Guangzhou 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 Guangzhou, which outranks the mayor, conventionally being the deputy secretary of the municipal committee. The secretary is also the leader of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee.
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 could also appointed by a plenary meeting of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee, which the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government.
The current secretary is Feng Zhonghua, who took office on 24 December 2025.
List of party secretaries No.English nameChinese nameTook officeLeft officeReferences1Zeng ZhiMay 1949October 19492Ye JianyingOctober 1949December 19523He WeiDecember 1952October 19544Wang DeNovember 1954February 19655Yong WentaoFebruary 1965June 19666Huang RonghaiJune 1966December 19727Yang ShangkunMarch 1979November 19808Liang LingguangNovember 1980May 19839Xu ShijieMay 1983November 198610Xie FeiNovember 1986May 19885Zhu SenlinMay 1988June May 19916Gao SirenMay 1991April 19987Huang HuahuaApril 1998September 20028Lin ShusenSeptember 2002June 20069Zhu XiaodanJuly 2006April 201010Zhang GuangningApril 2010December 201111Wan Qingliang20 December 201127 June 201412Ren Xuefeng27 August 201420 July 201813Zhang Shuofu20 July 20183 December 202114Lin Keqing3 December 202116 June 202315Guo Yonghang16 June 202324 December 202516Feng Zhonghua24 December 2025Incumbent
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