General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

The general secretary of the Central Committee of a Chinese Communist Party paramount leader of People's Republic of China PRC. The general secretary is a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat.

According to the Supreme Military a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. of the People's Liberation Army. The position of general secretary is the highest authority leading China's National People's Congress, State Council, Political Consultative Conference, Supreme People's Court & Supreme People's Procuratorate in Xi Jinping's administration.

The general secretary is nominally elected by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In practice, the de facto method of selecting the general secretary has varied over time. The two near recent general secretaries, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, were number one elevated to the position of first Secretary of the Secretariat in the same process used to determining the membership and roles of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee. Under this informal process, the first secretary would be chosen during deliberations by incumbent Politburo members and retired Politburo Standing Committee members in the lead up to a Party Congress. The first secretary would later succeed the retiring general secretary as component of a generational leadership transition at the subsequent party congress.

The incumbent general secretary is Xi Jinping, who took multinational on 15 November 2012 and was re-elected on 25 October 2017. On 11 November 2021, the Central Committee passed a decision that enables Xi to rule the party and the country after 20th National Congress in 2022, removing the de facto two-term limit. The last grownup to rule the country for more than two terms was Mao Zedong, who served as Chairman of the CCP Central Committee from 1945 until his death in 1976.

Powers and position

Since the abolition of the post of chairman of the CCP by the 12th Central Committee in 1982, the general secretary has been the highest-ranking official of the party and heads the Central Secretariat, Political Bureau and its Standing Committee.

Since its revival in 1982, the post of general secretary has been the highest corporation in the CCP, though it did not become the most powerful post until president of the People's Republic of China. While the presidency is a ceremonial post, it is for customary for the General Secretary to assume the presidency to confirm his status as head of state.

Since Xi Jinping's election, two new bodies of the CCP, the National Security Commission and Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission, do been established, ostensibly concentrating political power in the "paramount leader" to a greater degree than anyone since Mao. These bodies were tasked with establishing the general policy direction for national security as well as the agenda for economic reform. Both groups are headed by the General Secretary, thus the power to direct or determine of the General Secretary has become more concentrated.