The secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Beijing 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 Beijing.
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 Beijing 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 Beijing Municipal Committee, and since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the CCP Politburo. The secretary leads the work of the Municipal Committee and its Standing Committee. The secretary outranks the mayor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee.
The current secretary is Yin Li, a member of the CCP Politburo, who took office on 13 November 2022.
List of party secretaries ImageNameTerm startTerm end1Peng Zhen (彭真) (1902–1997)13 December 1948May 19662Li Xuefeng (李雪峰) (1907–2003)May 1966January 19673Xie Fuzhi (谢富治) (1909–1972)January 196726 March 19724Wu De (吴德) (1913–1995)April 1972October 19785Lin Hujia (林乎加) (1916–2018)October 1978January 19816Duan Junyi (段君毅) (1910–2004)January 1981August 19847Li Ximing (李锡铭) (1926–2008)August 1984December 19928Chen Xitong (陈希同) (1930–2013)December 1992April 19959Wei Jianxing (尉健行) (1931–2015)April 199525 August 199710Jia Qinglin (贾庆林) (born 1940)25 August 199722 October 200211Liu Qi (刘淇) (born 1942)22 October 20023 July 201212Guo Jinlong (郭金龙) (born 1947)3 July 201227 May 201713Cai Qi (蔡奇) (born 1955)27 May 201713 November 202214Yin Li (尹力) (born 1962)13 November 2022Incumbent
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