Party Secretary of Qingdao

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

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 Qingdao 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 Qingdao 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 CCP deputy secretary of the committee.

The current secretary is Zeng Zanrong, who took office in December 2023.

List of party secretaries NameTook officeLeft officeXue ShangshiMay 1949November 1949Xiang MingNovember 1949July 1950Lai KekeJuly 1950 December 1952Ren ZhibinDecember 1952December 1953Wang ShaoyongDecember 1953June 1955Li GuangwenJune 1955June 1956Teng JingluJune 1956November 1958Liu TefuNovember 1958November 1960Zhang JingtaoNovember 1960Cultural RevolutionYi YaocaiMay 1969July 1972Ma ZhongquanJuly 1972October 1973Liu ZhongqianOctober 1973January 1980Li ZhiwenJanuary 1980August 1982Zhou ZhenxingAugust 1982July 1984Liu PengJuly 1984November 1989Guo SongnianNovember 1989March 1992Yu ZhengshengFebruary 1992October 1997Zhang HuilaiOctober 1997June 2002Du ShichengJune 2002December 2006Yan QijunDecember 2006November 2010Li QunNovember 2010March 2017Zhang JiangtingMarch 2017January 2019Wang QingxianJanuary 2019January 2021Lu ZhiyuanAugust 2021October 2023Zeng ZanrongDecember 2023Incumbent

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