Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party

Not to be confused with General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: 中共中央秘书长) was a senior leadership position of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to assist in the daily work of the Central Committee. The secretary-general was established at the beginning of the founding of the CCP. However, due to the loss of information during the Long March and the Chinese Civil War, the records of the early secretaries-general were incomplete. Deng Xiaoping, the second-generation leader of China, served three times in the early years as the secretary-general of the Central Committee.^[1] The position of the secretary-general was renamed as general secretary from 1956 to 1966 and from 1980 to 1982. At that time, the leader of the Communist Party was Chairman of the Central Committee. The general secretary assisted the party chairman and vice chairmen in handling works of the Secretariat.^[2] Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang successively served as the secretary-general and general secretary during the period of Chairman Mao Zedong and Chairman Hua Guofeng respectively.^[3]

List of secretaries-general

Name	Took office	Left office	Position(s)
Mao Zedong	June 1923	???	Secretary of Central Bureau
???	January 1925	???	Head of the Secretariat
Wang Ruofei	July 1926	April 1927	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Li Weihan (no show)	April 1927	???	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Chen Duxiu (acting)	April 1927	???	Secretary-general of the Central Committee General Secretary of the Central Committee
Cai Hesen	???	???	Secretary-general of the Central Committee Head of the Propaganda Department
Zhang Guotao	???	June 1927	Secretary-general of the Central Committee Head of the Organization Department
Deng Zhongxia	June 1927	August 1927	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Li Weihan	August 1927	June 1928	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Deng Xiaoping	December 1927	July 1929	Secretary-general of the Secretariat
Zhou Enlai	June 1928	October 1928	Secretary-general of the Central Committee Head of the Organization Department
Li Lisan	October 1928	???	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Yu Zehong	July 1929	June 1930	Secretary-general of the Secretariat
Li Lisan	June 1930	September 1930	Secretary-general of the Central Committee Secretary-general of the Secretariat
Huang Wenrong	June 1930	???	Secretary-general of the Secretariat
Ke Qingshi	June 1931	May 1933	temporary Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Ke Qingshi	May 1933	???	Secretary-general of the Shanghai Central Bureau
Deng Yingchao	January 1934	January 1935	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Deng Xiaoping	January 1935	December 1935	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Zhang Wenbin [zh]	December 1935	August 1937	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Wang Shoudao	December 1935	August 1937	Secretary-general of the Secretariat
Liu Ying	???	???	Secretary-general of the Secretariat
Wang Ruofei	August 1937	March 1940	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Ren Bishi	September 1941	October 1950	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Deng Xiaoping	April 1954	September 1956	Secretary-general of the Central Committee
Hu Yaobang	December 1978	February 1980	Secretary-general of the Central Committee Head of the Propaganda Department

See also

• Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary