The Politics of

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...

follows a dual party-government system like the rest of China's provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon (''Guangdong Xianxiang''). The Guangdong Provincial People's Congress has enacted measures to increase democracy and transparency, and exert more control over the financial sector. In a well-publicized case in 2000, the Guangdong PPC also harshly criticized the Environmental Protection Bureau for allowing the construction of an electroplating park without a proper environmental impact investigation.

List of Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretaries

List of governors

Ye Jianying Ye Jianying (; 28 April 1897 – 22 October 1986) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup that overthre ...

: November 1948 – September 1953 #

Tao Zhu Tao Zhu (; 16 January 1908 – 30 November 1969) was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party . Biography Born in Qiyang, Hunan, Tao Zhu was Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Commander of t ...

: September 1953 – August 1957 # Chen Yu: August 1957 – November 1967 #

Huang Yongsheng Huang Yongsheng (; 1910–1983) was a general of the China's People's Liberation Army. In 1955 Huang was awarded the position of '' Shang Jiang'' (colonel-general), and Huang continued to rise throughout the 1950s and 1960s, eventually becoming ...

: November 1967 – June 1969 # Liu Xingyuan: June 1969 – April 1972 # Ding Sheng: April 1972 – April 1974 #

Zhao Ziyang Zhao Ziyang ( zh, 赵紫阳; pronounced , 17 October 1919 – 17 January 2005) was a Chinese politician. He was the third premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 19 ...

: April 1974 – October 1975 #

Wei Guoqing Wei Guoqing (; Zhuang: Veiz Gozcing; 2 September 1913 – 14 June 1989) was a Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar of Zhuang ethnicity. He served as the Chairman of Guangxi from 1958 to 1975 and on the Chin ...

: October 1975 – January 1979 #

Xi Zhongxun Xi Zhongxun (15 October 1913 – 24 May 2002) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a subsequent political official in the People's Republic of China. He is considered to be among the first and second generation of Chinese leadership. ...

: (1979–1981) #

Liu Tianfu Liu Tianfu (; October 1908 – 21 April 2002) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He was a leader of the East River Column, an anti-Japanese guerrilla force in Guangdong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. From 1981 to 1983 ...

: (1981–1983) #

Liang Lingguang Liang Lingguang (; November 1916 – 25 February 2006) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. An anti-Japanese activist in the 1930s, he led a guerrilla force under the New Fourth Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and rose ...

: (1983–1985) #

Ye Xuanping Ye Xuanping (; 20 December 1924 – 17 September 2019) was a Chinese politician, who served as Mayor of Guangzhou from 1980 to 1985 and Governor of Guangdong, his native province, from 1985 to 1991. Ye was a strong supporter of Deng Xiaoping's r ...

: (1985–1991) # Zhu Senlin: (1991–1996) # Lu Ruihua: (1996–2003) #

Huang Huahua Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese politician, and the Governor of Guangdong between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of Meizhou. Biography Huang was born in Xingning County, ...

: (2003–2011) #

Zhu Xiaodan Zhu Xiaodan (; born January 1953) is the Chinese politician who served as Governor of Guangdong from 2011 to 2016. A lifelong Communist functionary, Zhu was appointed Vice Governor of Guangdong in February 2010 and became acting Governor in Novemb ...

: (2011–2016) #

Ma Xingrui Ma Xingrui (; born October 1959) is a Chinese politician and aerospace engineer who is the Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang. Prior to that, he had served as the Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Head of the Political a ...

: (2016–2021) #

Wang Weizhong Wang Weizhong (; born March 1962) is a Chinese politician, and current deputy party secretary and governor of Guangdong. A graduate of Tsinghua University, Wang rose through the ranks in the working for the Ministry of Science and Technology. ...

: (2021-present)

List of chairmen of Guangdong People's Congress

# Li Jianzhen (): 1979–1983 # Luo Tian (): 1983–1990 #

Lin Ruo Lin Ruo (; July 19, 1924 – October 7, 2012) was a Chinese politician who served as Party Committee Secretary of Guangdong Province. Biography Lin was a native of Chao'an District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong. He joined the Chinese Communist ...

(): 1990–1996 # Zhu Senlin (): 1996–2001 # Zhang Guoying (): 2001–2003 # Lu Zhonghe (): 2003–2005 # Huang Liman (): 2005 – January 2008 # Ou Guangyuan (): January 2008 – January 2013 # Huang Longyun (): January 2013 – January 2017 # Li Yumei (): January 2017- January 2022 # Huang Chuping(): January 2022-present

List of chairmen of Guangdong CPPCC

(): 1955–1960　 #

Ou Mengjue Ou Mengjue () (1906–1992) was a People's Republic of China politician. She was born in Nanhai, Guangdong Province. She was CPPCC Committee Chairwoman of her home province. She was a delegate to the 1st National People's Congress and 3rd National ...

(): 1960–1967　 # Wang Shoudao (): 1977–1979　 # Yin Linping (): 1979–1983　 # Liang Weilin (): 1983–1985 # Wu Nansheng (): 1985–1993　 # Guo Rongchang (): 1993–2003　 # Liu Fengyi (): 2003　 # Chen Shaoji (): 2004 – April 2009 # Huang Longyun: 2009–2013 # Zhu Mingguo: 2013–2014 # Wang Rong: 2015–present

List of Chairmen of the Guangdong
National Supervisory Commission National Supervisory Commission of the People's Republic of China is the highest anti-corruption agency of the People's Republic of China, at the same administrative ranking as Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate. Its oper ...

# Shi Kehui (施克辉): 2018-2021 # Song Fulong (宋福龙): 2021-present

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