Head of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party

The head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Publicity Department, a department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The current head of the Publicity Department is Li Shulei, who is also a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party.

List of heads

+NameStartEndNotesLi DaAugust 1921July 1922First propaganda chief of the CCPCai HesenAugust 1922June 1923Propaganda chief of the 2nd Central Executive CommitteeLuo ZhanglongMay 1924January 1925Propaganda chief of the 3rd Central Executive CommitteePeng ShuzhiFebruary 1925March 1927Director of propagandaCai HesenApril 1927October 1927Acting propaganda chief of the 5th PolitburoLuo QiyuanNovember 1927June 1928Cai HesenJuly 1928October 1928Li LisanNovember 1928December 1930First head of the Central Propaganda DepartmentShen ZeminJanuary 1931April 1931Zhang WentianApril 1931December 1934Wu LiangpingJanuary 1935July 1937Zhang WentianJuly 1937December 1942Lu DingyiJanuary 1943December 1952Head of the "Central Propaganda Commission" from 1943 to 1945Xi ZhongxunJanuary 1953July 1954Lu DingyiJuly 1954May 1966Tao ZhuMay 1966January 1967Wang LiJanuary 1967January 1968InterregnumKang ShengNovember 1970December 1975Head of the Central Organization and Propaganda Leading GroupYao WenyuanJanuary 1976October 1976Geng BiaoOctober 1976October 1977As head of the Central Propaganda GroupZhang PinghuaOctober 1977December 1978Hu Yaobang25 December 197812 March 1980Wang Renzhong12 March 1980April 1982Deng LiqunApril 1982August 1985Zhu HouzeAugust 1985February 1987Wang RenzhiFebruary 1987December 1992Ding GuangenDecember 1992October 2002Liu Yunshan24 October 200221 November 2012Liu Qibao21 November 201230 October 2017Huang Kunming30 October 201726 October 2022Li Shulei26 October 2022Incumbent

Executive deputy heads

Hu Qiaomu (March 1950–December 1954) Zhang Jichun (December 1954–November 1956) Zhang Ziyi (November 1956–May 1966) Xiong Fu (June 1966–December 1966) Yu Wen (1982–October 1989) Xu Weicheng (October 1989–September 1992) Zheng Bijian (September 1992–November 1992) Liu Yunshan (April 1993–October 2002) Gong Xinhan (1993–2006) Ji Bingxuan (April 2003–April 2008) Luo Shugang (June 2008–December 2014) Huang Kunming (December 2014–October 2017) Wang Xiaohui (January 2018–April 2022) Li Shulei (April 2022–October 2022) Hu Heping (March 2023–present)

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