Party Secretary of Chongqing

Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
中国共产党重庆市委员会书记
Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party
Flag of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent Yuan Jiajun since 9 December 2022
Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Type	Party Committee Secretary
Status	Provincial and ministerial-level official
Member of	Chongqing Municipal Standing Committee
Nominator	Central Committee
Appointer	Chongqing Municipal Committee Central Committee
Inaugural holder	Chen Xilian
Formation	1949
Deputy	Deputy Secretary Secretary-General

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

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 Chongqing 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 Chongqing Municipal Committee, and since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo. ^[1] 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 Yuan Jiajun, a member of the CCP Politburo, who took office on 9 December 2022.

List of party secretaries

No.	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Ref.
1		Chen Xilian (陈锡联) (1915–1999)	1949	1950	[2] [3] [4]
2		Zhang Linzhi (张霖之) (1908–1967)	1950	1952	[5] [4]
3		Cao Diqiu (曹荻秋) (1909–1976)	1952	1954	[4]
4		Yan Hongyan (阎红彦) (1909–1967)	1956	1959	[4]
5		Ren Baige (任白戈) (1906–1986)	1959	1967	[4]
6		Lan Yinong (蓝亦农) (1919–2008)	1967	1968	[6]
7		Duan Siying (段思英) (1917–2007)	1968	1969	[6]
8		He Yunfeng (何云峰) (1922–2013)	1969	1973	[6]
9		Lu Dadong (鲁大东) (1915–1998)	1973	1977	[6]
10		Qian Min (钱敏) (1915–2016)	1977	1978	[7]
11		Ding Changhe (丁长河) (born 1934)	1978	1980	[8]
12		Yu Hanqing (于汉卿) (1929–2011)	1980	1985	[9]
13		Liao Bokang (廖伯康) (born 1924)	1985	1988	[10]
14		Xiao Yang (肖秧) (1929–1998)	1988	1993	[10]
15		Sun Tongchuan (孙同川) (born 1940)	1993	1995	[11] [10]
16		Zhang Delin (张德邻) (born 1939)	October 1995	June 1999	[12] [10]
17		He Guoqiang (贺国强) (born 1943)	June 1999	October 2002	[13]
18		Huang Zhendong (黄镇东) (born 1941)	October 2002	December 2005	[14] [15]
19		Wang Yang (汪洋) (born 1955)	24 December 2005	30 November 2007	[14] [15]
20		Bo Xilai (薄熙来) (born 1949)	30 November 2007	15 March 2012	[16]
21		Zhang Dejiang (张德江) (born 1946)	15 March 2012	20 November 2012	[17]
22		Sun Zhengcai (孙政才) (born 1963)	20 November 2012	14 July 2017	[18]
23		Chen Min'er (陈敏尔) (born 1960)	15 July 2017	8 December 2022	[19]
24		Yuan Jiajun (袁家军) (born 1962)	8 December 2022	Incumbent	[20]

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