Party Secretary of Guangdong

Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
中国共产党广东省委员会书记
Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party
Flag of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent Huang Kunming since 28 October 2022
Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Type	Party Committee Secretary
Status	Provincial level official
Member of	Guangdong Provincial Standing Committee
Nominator	Central Committee
Appointer	Guangdong Provincial Committee Central Committee
Inaugural holder	Ye Jianying
Formation	August 1949
Deputy	Deputy Secretary Secretary-General

The secretary of theGuangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Guangdong Provincial 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 Guangdong and outranks the governor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee. Since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo. ^[1]

List of party secretaries

No.	Image	Name	Term start	Term end	Ref.
1		Ye Jianying	August 1949	July 1955	[2]
2		Tao Zhu	July 1955	February 1965	[3]
3		Zhao Ziyang	February 1965	March 1967	[3]
4		Huang Yongsheng	February 1968	November 1969	[3]
5		Liu Xingyuan	November 1969	December 1972	[3]
6		Ding Sheng	December 1972	December 1973	[3]
7		Zhao Ziyang	April 1974	October 1975	[3]
8		Wei Guoqing	October 1975	December 1978	[3]
9		Xi Zhongxun	December 1978	November 1980	[3]
10		Ren Zhongyi	November 1980	July 1985	[3]
11		Lin Ruo	July 1985	January 1991	[3]
12		Xie Fei	January 1991	March 1998	[3]
13		Li Changchun	March 1998	November 2002	[4]
14		Zhang Dejiang	24 December 2002	1 December 2007	[5]
15		Wang Yang	1 December 2007	18 December 2012	[6]
16		Hu Chunhua	28 December 2012	28 October 2017	[7] [6]
17		Li Xi	28 October 2017	28 October 2022	[8]
18		Huang Kunming	28 October 2022	incumbent	[9]

References

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8. "广东召开全省领导干部会议，中央决定：李希兼任广东省委书记". Nanfang Daily (in Chinese). October 28, 2017. Archived from the original on February 19, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
9. "广东省委主要负责同志职务调整 黄坤明兼任广东省委书记". Xinhua (in Chinese). October 28, 2022. Archived from the original on November 20, 2022. Retrieved March 18, 2024.