The Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the municipal committee of the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

. The CCP committee secretary is the highest ranking post in the city and outranks the

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, who is generally the

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of the committee. The current secretary is

Chen Jining Chen Jining ( zh, s=陈吉宁, p=Chén Jíníng; born 4 February 1964) is a Chinese environmental scientist, academic administrator and politician who has been serving as Party Secretary of Shanghai and member of the 20th Politburo of the C ...

, a member of the

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, who replaced

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on 28 October 2022. The committee is elected every five years by the Shanghai Municipal Congress of the CCP. The permanent body of the committee is its

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Organization

The organization of the CCP Shanghai Committee includes: * General Office

Functional Departments

* Organization Department * Propaganda Department * United Front Work Department * Political and Legal Affairs Commission

Offices

* Research Office * Office of the National Security Commission * Office of the Cyberspace Affairs Commission * Office of the Central Military-civilian Fusion Development Committee * Taiwan Work Office * Office of the Institutional Organization Commission * Office of the Leading Group for Inspection Work

Organizations Directly under the Committee

* Shanghai Municipal Party School *

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* Shanghai Institute of Socialism * State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform * Office of the Institutional Organization Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai Committee

Standing Committee

The Standing Committee Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the permanent body of the committee. It currently consists of 12 members: *

, Committee Secretary *

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, Mayor of Shanghai, Deputy Committee Secretary * Li Yangzhe, Secretary of the Shanghai Commission for Discipline Inspection, Director of the Shanghai Supervisory Commission * Zhang Wei, Director of the Shanghai Organization Department * Zhao Jiaming, Head of the Shanghai Propaganda Department * Chen Tong, Head of the Shanghai United Front Work Department * Zhu Zhisong, Communist Party Secretary of

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* Chen Jinshan, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Lingang New Area, Director of the Lingang New Area Administration * Li Zheng, Committee Secretary-general * Hu Shijun, Political Commissar of the

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Shanghai Garrison * Hua Yuan, Executive Vice Mayor

Leadership

The secretary of the committee is the highest office in Shanghai, being superior to the mayor of the city. Since at least 2007, the secretary has consistently been a member of the

Party Committees

11th Municipal Party Committee (12 May 2017 – 28 June 2022) * Secretary:

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(until 29 October 2017),

(from 29 October 2017) * Deputy Secretaries:

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(Mayor, until February 2020),

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(until November 2019),

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(February 2020–August 2020),

(Mayor, from March 2020),

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(October 2020–February 2022),

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(from March 2022) * Other Standing Committee members: Dong Yunhu (until May 2018), Wu Jingping (until May 2018),

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(February 2019), Chen Yin (until October 2021), Weng Zuliang (until July 2021),

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(until May 2018), Ling Xi (December 2017–May 2021), Zhou Huilin (from May 2018), Zheng Gangmiao (from June 2018), Wu Qing (from September 2019), Lin Xuexin (from May 2020),

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(from December 2020), Zhu Zhisong (from January 2021), Liu Jie (from May 2021), Zhao Jiaming (from March 2022), Chen Jinshan (from March 2022) 12th Municipal Party Committee (28 June 2022–) * Secretary:

(until 28 October 2022),

(from 28 October 2022) * Deputy Secretaries:

(Mayor),

(until March 2023), Wu Qing (July 2023–February 2024) * Other Standing Committee members: Lin Xuexin (until October 2022),

(until January 2023), Zhao Jiaming, Chen Tong, Zhu Zhisong, Zhang Wei, Chen Jinshan, Guo Fang (until June 2023), Li Yangzhe (from October 2022), Hu Shijun (from April 2023), Li Zheng (from July 2023), Hua Yuan (from February 2024)

References

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