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The Politburo of the Communist Party of China (Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
: ?????????? pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Zhongguó Gòngchandang Zhongyang Zhèngzhìjú) (also "Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee"), formerly as Central Bureau before 1927, is a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and the ruling party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party....
. Unlike politburo
Politburo

Politburo, short for Political Bureau, Russian language Politicheskoye Buro, is the executive organization for a number of political parties, most notably those of Communist Party....
s (political bureaus) of other Communist parties
Communist party

A political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government....
, power within the politburo is centralized in the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Politburo of the Communist Party of China Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China is a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 people, usually men, and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China....
. The Politburo is nominally appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , formerly as Central Executive Committee before 1927, is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China elected by the National Congress of the Communist Party of China....
 but the practice since the 1980s has been that the Politburo is self-perpetuating.

The power of the Politburo resides largely in the fact that its members generally simultaneously hold positions within the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
 state positions and with the control over personnel appointments that the Politburo and Secretariat have.






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The Politburo of the Communist Party of China (Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
: ?????????? pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Zhongguó Gòngchandang Zhongyang Zhèngzhìjú) (also "Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee"), formerly as Central Bureau before 1927, is a group of 19 to 25 people who oversee the Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and the ruling party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party....
. Unlike politburo
Politburo

Politburo, short for Political Bureau, Russian language Politicheskoye Buro, is the executive organization for a number of political parties, most notably those of Communist Party....
s (political bureaus) of other Communist parties
Communist party

A political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government....
, power within the politburo is centralized in the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Politburo of the Communist Party of China Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China is a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 people, usually men, and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China....
. The Politburo is nominally appointed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , formerly as Central Executive Committee before 1927, is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China elected by the National Congress of the Communist Party of China....
 but the practice since the 1980s has been that the Politburo is self-perpetuating.

The power of the Politburo resides largely in the fact that its members generally simultaneously hold positions within the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
 state positions and with the control over personnel appointments that the Politburo and Secretariat have. In addition, some Politburo members hold powerful regional positions. How the Politburo works internally is unclear, but it appears that the full Politburo meets once a month and the standing committee meets weekly. This is believed to be much more infrequent than the former Soviet Politburo
Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Politburo , known as the Presidium from 1952 to 1966, functioned as the central policymaking and governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
 had been. The agenda for the meetings appears to be controlled by the General Secretary
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China and heads the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China....
 and decisions are made by consensus
Consensus

Consensus has two common meanings. One is a general Wiktionary:agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision making and follow-up action....
 rather than by majority vote.

The Politburo was eclipsed by the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee
Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee

The Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee is the permanent bureaucracy of the Communist Party of China and forms a parallel structure to state organizations in the People's Republic of China....
 in the early 1980s under Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang

Hu Yaobang was a leader of the People's Republic of China.He was famous for supporting reforms toward capitalism and political reform in China....
, but has re-emerged as a dominant force after Hu's ousting in 1987.

Current (17th) Politburo members

In stroke order of surnames
Surname stroke order

The surname stroke order arose as an impartial method of categorization of the order in which names appear in official documentation or in ceremonial procedure without any line of hierarchy....
:


16th Politburo members

In stroke order of surnames
Surname stroke order

The surname stroke order arose as an impartial method of categorization of the order in which names appear in official documentation or in ceremonial procedure without any line of hierarchy....
:


  • Wang Lequan
    Wang Lequan

    Wang Lequan is the current secretary of the Communist Party of China of the Xinjiang....
     (CPC Xinjiang
    Xinjiang

    Xinjiang is an autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area, spanning over 1.6 million sq....
     Committee Secretary)
  • Wang Zhaoguo
    Wang Zhaoguo

    Wang Zhaoguo is a Chinese politician who came to prominence during the era of Deng Xiaoping. At age 41 he had already acquired a ministerial position job....
     (Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress
    National People's Congress

    The National People's Congress , abbreviated NPC , is the highest state body and only legislative house in the People's Republic of China....
     Standing Committee; Chair, All-China Federation of Trade Unions
    All-China Federation of Trade Unions

    The All-China Federation of Trade Unions , is the sole national trade union federation of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 134 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations....
    )
  • Hui Liangyu
    Hui Liangyu

    Hui Liangyu is the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China in charge of agriculture....
     (Vice-Premier)
  • Liu Qi
    Liu Qi (Communist)

    Liu Qi is the Communist Party of China Beijing Committee Secretary, politics of Beijing of Beijing, and also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China....
     (CPC Beijing
    Beijing

    is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
     Committee Secretary)
  • Liu Yunshan
    Liu Yunshan

    Liu Yunshan is a leader in the Communist Party of China....
     (CPC Propaganda Head)
  • Li Changchun
    Li Changchun

    Li Changchun is considered to be the propaganda chief of the Communist Party of China. He is a 5th ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's de facto top power organ, and has been a member since 2002....
  • Wu Yi
    Wu Yi

    Wu Yi was one of four Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China of the State Council of the People's Republic of China of the People's Republic of China, overseeing the country's economy until March 2008....
     (Vice-Premier)
  • Wu Bangguo
    Wu Bangguo

    Wu Bangguo is a high-ranking Politics of the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China. He is currently Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, a position that makes him China's chief legislator and places him second in Political position r...
     (Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee)
  • Wu Guanzheng
    Wu Guanzheng

    Wu Guanzheng was the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, an anti-corruption body from 2002 to 2007....
     (Head of Central Discipline Inspection Commission
    Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China

    The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China is the quasi-government body within the People's Republic of China charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among Communist Party of China cadres....
  • Zhang Lichang
  • Zhang Dejiang
    Zhang Dejiang

    Zhang Dejiang is a current Vice-Premier and a prominent leader of the Communist Party of China, a member of its Politburo of the Communist Party of China....
     (CPC Guangdong
    Guangdong

    Guangdong is a political divisions of China on the southern coast of People's Republic of China. The province is also known by an alternative English language name, the Canton Province....
     Committee Secretary)
  • Chen Liangyu
    Chen Liangyu

    Chen Liangyu was a politician of the People's Republic of China from the ruling Communist Party of China, and the disgraced Politics of Shanghai, or the city's first-in-charge....
     (suspended 2006)
  • Luo Gan
    Luo Gan

    Luo Gan is a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and former Political and Legislative Affairs Committee secretary of the People's Republic of China....
     (Chair, Legislative and Legal Affairs Committee)
  • Zhou Yongkang
    Zhou Yongkang

    Zhou Yongkang is a senior leader of the Communist Party of China who is currently serving as the 9th ranked member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee, State Councilor, and the head of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, an organ directing central government legal policy...
     (Head of Ministry of Public Security
    Ministry of Public Security

    Ministry of Public Security can refer to:* Ministry of Public Security of Burundi* Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China...
    )
  • Hu Jintao
    Hu Jintao

    Hu Jintao is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the Generations of Chinese leadership...
     (President, General Secretary)
  • Yu Zhengsheng
    Yu Zhengsheng

    Yu Zhengsheng is the current CPC party chief in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, a post which makes him first-in-charge of China's largest city....
     (CPC Hubei
    Hubei

    is a central province of China of the People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation is ? , an ancient name associated with the eastern part of the province since the Qin Dynasty....
     Committee Secretary)
  • He Guoqiang
    He Guoqiang

    He Guoqiang is a high-ranking government official in the government of the People's Republic of China. Currently he is the 8th ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee, and the head of the new Central Commission for Discipline Inspection....
     (Head of CPC Organization Department)
  • Jia Qinglin
    Jia Qinglin

    Jia Qinglin is the fourth ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Communist Party of China, and the Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference....
     (Chairman of the Political Consultative Conference)
  • Guo Boxiong
    Guo Boxiong

    Guo Boxiong is the current Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission , a position he was appointed during the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China along with membership of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China....
     (Vice-Chairman, Central Military Commission
    Central Military Commission

    A Central Military Commission or National Defense Commission is an organisation typical of Communist one-party states, responsible for supervising the nation's armed forces....
    )
  • Huang Ju
    Huang Ju

    Huang Ju was the Executive Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1966. He was Political position ranking of the People's Republic of China, and was one of the least popular and most partisan members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Communist...
     (deceased 2007)
  • Cao Gangchuan
    Cao Gangchuan

    Cao Gangchuan is vice chairman of Central Military Commission and former Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China of the People's Republic of China....
     (Minister of Defense)
  • Zeng Qinghong
    Zeng Qinghong

    Zeng Qinghong was the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2008. He became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee during the 2002 16th Party Congress....
     (Vice-President, Principal of Central Party School)
  • Zeng Peiyan
    Zeng Peiyan

    Zeng Peiyan is a China politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2007 and was a Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2008....
     (Vice-Premier)
  • Wen Jiabao
    Wen Jiabao

    Wen Jiabao is the current Premier of the People's Republic of China of the State Council of the People's Republic of China of the People's Republic of China, leading the country's Cabinet ....
     (Premier)
  • Wang Gang
    Wang Gang (politician)

    Wang Gang is a politician of the People's Republic of China and a leader of the Communist Party of China . He was born in Fuyu County, Jilin Province, and graduated from the department of philosophy of Jilin University....
     (Alternate Member)


15th Politburo members

  • Ding Guangen
    Ding Guangen

    Ding Guangen is a politician of the People's Republic of China and a former Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China of China.Ding was elevated to Central Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China in 1987, and was expected to succeed more prominent posts....
  • Tian Jiyun
    Tian Jiyun

    Tian Jiyun is a politician in the People's Republic of China, known as a supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. The best-known feature of his biography is the speech of 1992, delivered in the Central Party School, in which he ridicules the "leftists" ....
  • Zhu Rongji
    Zhu Rongji

    Zhu R?ngji is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then Premier of the People's Republic of China of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003....
  • Jiang Zemin
    Jiang Zemin

    Jiang Zemin was the "core of the Generations of Chinese leadership" of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004....
  • Li Peng
    Li Peng

    Li Peng , was the Premier of the People's Republic of China of China between 1987 and 1998, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003 and was second-ranking in the Communist Party of China behind Jiang Zemin on the Politbur...
  • Li Changchun
    Li Changchun

    Li Changchun is considered to be the propaganda chief of the Communist Party of China. He is a 5th ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's de facto top power organ, and has been a member since 2002....
  • Li Lanqing
    Li Lanqing

    Li Lanqing is a prominent China politician....
  • Li Tieying
  • Li Ruihuan
    Li Ruihuan

    Li Ru?hu?n was a politician active late 20th century and early 21st century in the People's Republic of China. Li was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China of 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Communist Party of China until Nov...
  • Wu Bangguo
    Wu Bangguo

    Wu Bangguo is a high-ranking Politics of the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China. He is currently Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, a position that makes him China's chief legislator and places him second in Political position r...
  • Wu Guanzheng
    Wu Guanzheng

    Wu Guanzheng was the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, an anti-corruption body from 2002 to 2007....
  • Chi Haotian
    Chi Haotian

    General Chi Haotian is a general of the People's Republic of China....
  • Zhang Wannian
    Zhang Wannian

    Zhang Wannian is a general of the People's Republic of China....
  • Luo Gan
    Luo Gan

    Luo Gan is a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and former Political and Legislative Affairs Committee secretary of the People's Republic of China....
  • Hu Jintao
    Hu Jintao

    Hu Jintao is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the Generations of Chinese leadership...
  • Jiang Chunyun
    Jiang Chunyun

    Jiang Chunyun was vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress....
  • Jia Qinglin
    Jia Qinglin

    Jia Qinglin is the fourth ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Communist Party of China, and the Chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference....
  • Qian Qichen
    Qian Qichen

    Qian Qichen is a China diplomat and communism political figure. He served as Chinese foreign minister from April 1988 to March 1998....
  • Huang Ju
    Huang Ju

    Huang Ju was the Executive Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1966. He was Political position ranking of the People's Republic of China, and was one of the least popular and most partisan members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Communist...
  • Wei Jianxing
    Wei Jianxing

    Wei Jianxing is a former senior leader in Communist Party of China, a standing committee member of politburo in CPC, the secretary of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, and the chairman of All-China Federation of Trade Unions....
  • Wen Jiabao
    Wen Jiabao

    Wen Jiabao is the current Premier of the People's Republic of China of the State Council of the People's Republic of China of the People's Republic of China, leading the country's Cabinet ....
  • Xie Fei
    Xie Fei

    Xie Fei may refer to*Xie Fei , a Chinese politician, former governor of Guangdong;*Xie Fei , a Chinese movie director, won Golden Bear;...
     (deceased on October 27, 1999)
  • Zeng Qinghong
    Zeng Qinghong

    Zeng Qinghong was the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2008. He became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee during the 2002 16th Party Congress....
     (alternate)
  • Wu Yi
    Wu Yi

    Wu Yi was one of four Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China of the State Council of the People's Republic of China of the People's Republic of China, overseeing the country's economy until March 2008....
     (alternate)


See also

  • Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
    Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

    The Politburo of the Communist Party of China Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China is a committee whose membership varies between 5 and 9 people, usually men, and includes the top leadership of the Communist Party of China....
  • Central Guard Unit
    Central Guard Unit

    The Central Guard Unit is responsible for the security of senior government, party, and military leaders.It has several barracks in central Beijing and in northwest Beijing near the Western Hills....


External links

  • , Winter 2004: Party Affairs, By Alice L. Miller, China Leadership Monitor No. 9
  • Pictures of the members (spanish)