Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party explained

Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Native Name:	Chinese: 中国共产党上海市委员会
Body:	Highest decision-making organ when Shanghai Municipal Congress is not in session.
First Convocation:	15 December 1921
Elected By:	Shanghai Municipal Congress
Term Limits:	None
Length Of Term:	Five years
Executive Organ:	Standing Committee
Inspection Commission:	Commission for Discipline Inspection
Session Room:	Shanghai Government Building.jpg
Session Res:	250px
Meeting Place:	200 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Secretary:	Chen Jining
Deputy Secretary:	Gong Zheng (Mayor)
Secretary General:	Li Zheng

S:	中国共产党上海市委员会
T:	中國共產黨上海市委員會
P:	Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Shànghǎi Shì Wěiyuánhuì
Also Known As:	Abbreviation
P2:	Zhōnggòng Shànghǎi Shìwěi
Order:	st
C2:	中共上海市委

The Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the municipal committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shanghai.^[1] The CCP committee secretary is the highest ranking post in the city and outranks the mayor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee. The current secretary is Chen Jining, a member of the CCP Politburo,^[2] who replaced Li Qiang on 28 October 2022.^[3]

The committee is elected every five years by the Shanghai Municipal Congress of the CCP.^[4] The permanent body of the committee is its Standing Committee.^[5]

Organization

The organization of the CCP Shanghai Committee includes:^[6]

• General Office^[7]

Functional Departments

• Organization Department
• Propaganda Department
• United Front Work Department
• Political and Legal Affairs Commission

Offices

• Research Office
• Office of the National Security Commission
• Office of the Cyberspace Affairs Commission
• Office of the Central Military-civilian Fusion Development Committee
• Taiwan Work Office
• Office of the Institutional Organization Commission
• Office of the Leading Group for Inspection Work

Organizations Directly under the Committee

• Shanghai Municipal Party School
• Shanghai United Media Group^[8]
• Shanghai Institute of Socialism
• State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform
• Office of the Institutional Organization Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai Committee

Standing Committee

The Standing Committee Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the permanent body of the committee. It currently consists of 12 members:

• Chen Jining, Committee Secretary
• Gong Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, Deputy Committee Secretary^[9]
• Li Yangzhe, Secretary of the Shanghai Commission for Discipline Inspection, Director of the Shanghai Supervisory Commission
• Zhang Wei, Director of the Shanghai Organization Department
• Zhao Jiaming, Head of the Shanghai Propaganda Department
• Chen Tong, Head of the Shanghai United Front Work Department
• Zhu Zhisong, Communist Party Secretary of Pudong
• Chen Jinshan, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Lingang New Area, Director of the Lingang New Area Administration
• Li Zheng, Committee Secretary-general
• Hu Shijun, Political Commissar of the People's Liberation Army Shanghai Garrison
• Hua Yuan, Executive Vice Mayor

Leadership

CCP Committee Secretaries

Post:	Secretary
Insignia:	Danghui.svg
Insigniasize:	100px
Insigniacaption:	Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party
Flag:	Flag of the Chinese Communist Party.svg
Flagsize:	125px
Flagcaption:	Flag of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent:	Chen Jining
Incumbentsince:	October 28, 2022
Inaugural:	Rao Shushi
Formation:	1949
Deputy:	Deputy Secretary Secretary-General
Appointer:	Shanghai Municipal Committee Central Committee
Nominator:	Central Committee
Native Name:	Chinese: 中国共产党上海市委员会书记
Department:	Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Body:	the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Type:	Party Committee Secretary
Member Of:	Shanghai Municipal Standing Committee
Seat:	Huangpu, Shanghai
Status:	Provincial level official

The secretary of the committee is the highest office in Shanghai, being superior to the mayor of the city.^[1]

	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Rao Shushi	1949	1950
2	Chen Yi	1950	1954
3	Ke Qingshi	1954	1965
4	Chen Pixian	1965	1967
5	Zhang Chunqiao	1971	1976
6	Su Zhenhua	1976	1979
7	Peng Chong	1979	1980
8	Chen Guodong	1980	1985
9	Rui Xingwen	1985	1987
10	Jiang Zemin	27 November 1987	1 August 1989
11	Zhu Rongji	1 August 1989	20 March 1991
12	Wu Bangguo	20 March 1991	28 September 1994
13	Huang Ju	28 September 1994	15 November 2002
14	Chen Liangyu	15 November 2002	24 September 2006	^[10]
—	Han Zheng	24 September 2006	24 March 2007	^[11]
15	Xi Jinping	24 March 2007	27 October 2007	^[12]
16	Yu Zhengsheng	27 October 2007	20 November 2012	^[13]
17	Han Zheng	20 November 2012	29 October 2017
18	Li Qiang	29 October 2017	28 October 2022	^[14]
19	Chen Jining	28 October 2022	Incumbent

Party Committees

11th Municipal Party Committee (12 May 2017 – 28 June 2022)

• Secretary: Han Zheng (until 29 October 2017), Li Qiang (from 29 October 2017)
• Deputy Secretaries: Ying Yong (Mayor, until February 2020), Yin Hong (until November 2019), Liao Guoxun (February 2020–August 2020), Gong Zheng (Mayor, from March 2020), Yu Shaoliang (October 2020–February 2022), Zhuge Yujie (from March 2022)
• Other Standing Committee members: Dong Yunhu (until May 2018), Wu Jingping (until May 2018), Zhou Bo (February 2019), Chen Yin (until October 2021), Weng Zuliang (until July 2021), Shi Xiaolin (until May 2018), Ling Xi (December 2017–May 2021), Zhou Huilin (from May 2018), Zheng Gangmiao (from June 2018), Wu Qing (from September 2019), Lin Xuexin (from May 2020), Hu Wenrong (from December 2020), Zhu Zhisong (from January 2021), Liu Jie (from May 2021), Zhao Jiaming (from March 2022), Chen Jinshan (from March 2022)

12th Municipal Party Committee (28 June 2022–)

• Secretary: Li Qiang (until 28 October 2022), Chen Jining (from 28 October 2022)
• Deputy Secretaries: Gong Zheng (Mayor), Zhuge Yujie (until March 2023), Wu Qing (July 2023–February 2024)^[15]
• Other Standing Committee members: Lin Xuexin (until October 2022), Hu Wenrong (until January 2023), Zhao Jiaming, Chen Tong, Zhu Zhisong, Zhang Wei, Chen Jinshan, Guo Fang (until June 2023), Li Yangzhe (from October 2022), Hu Shijun (from April 2023), Li Zheng (from July 2023), Hua Yuan (from February 2024)

See also

• Politics of Shanghai

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