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The secretary-general of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is a political office in the People's Republic of China. The secretary-general heads the General Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China.^[1]

The secretary-general is officially nominated within the CPPCC National Committee and approved by a plenary session of the National Committee.^[1] The secretary-general is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee, which handles the regular affairs of the body,^[1] and is a member of the Chairperson's Council, which handles the day-to-day affairs of the Standing Committee.^[1] The secretary-general is assisted by deputy secretaries-general, appointed or dismissed by the National Committee on the proposal of the secretary-general.^[1] The secretary-general and deputy secretaries-general jointly constitute the Meeting of the Secretaries-General of the CPPCC National Committee, which is presided by the secretary-general.^[2]

List of officeholders

No. [note 1]	Term(s)	Name (birth–death)	Picture	Took office	Left Office	Tenure	Important offices held during tenure	CPPCC Chairperson	Ref.
1	1st	Li Weihan (1896–1984)		21 September 1949	December 29, 1954	5 years, 99 days	Head of the United Front Work Department Secretary-General of the Government Administration Council Head of the Ethnic Affairs Commission Government Chief Plenipotentiary Representative of the Central People's Government to Tibet	Mao Zedong	[3]
2	2nd	Xu Bing (1903–1972)		December 29, 1954	April 1959	4 years, 93 days	Alternate member of the CCP Central Committee Member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress	Zhou Enlai	[4]
	3rd			April 1959	December 21, 1964	5 years, 264 days
3	4th	Ping Jiesan (1906–2001)		December 21, 1964	February 26, 1978	13 years, 67 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee		[5][6]
4	5th	Qi Yanming (1907–1978)		February 26, 1978	October 21, 1978	237 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee	Deng Xiaoping	[7]
5		Liu Lan Tao (1910–1997)		July 1979	June 6, 1983	3 years, 340 days	Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Commission Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee		[8]
6	6th	Peng Youjin (1914–2005)		June 6, 1983	October 1985	2 years, 117 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee	Deng Yingchao	[9]
7		Zhou Shaozheng (1926–2007)		April 1986	April 1988	2 years, 0 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee		[10]
	7th			April 1988	March 1990	1 year, 334 days		Li Xiannian
8		Song Demin (1930–2021)		April 1991	March 1993	1 year, 334 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee		[11]
	8th			March 1993	March 1994	1 year, 0 days		Li Ruihuan
9		Zhu Xun (born 1930)		March 1994	March 5, 1998	4 years, 4 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee		[12]
10	9th	Zheng Wantong (born 1941)		March 5, 1998	March 14, 2003	5 years, 9 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee		[13]
	10th			March 14, 2003	March 5, 2008	4 years, 357 days		Jia Qinglin
11	11th	Qian Yunlu (born 1944)		March 5, 2008	March 11, 2013	5 years, 0 days	Member of the CCP Central Committee Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee		[14]
12	12th	Zhang Qingli (born 1951)		March 11, 2013	March 14, 2018	5 years, 3 days	Member of the CCP Central Committee Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee	Yu Zhengsheng	[15]
13	13th	Xia Baolong (born 1952)		March 14, 2018	May 19, 2020	2 years, 66 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office	Wang Yang	[16]
14		Li Bin (born 1954)		May 19, 2020	March 10, 2023	2 years, 295 days	Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairwoman of the CPPCC National Committee Chairwoman of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation		[17]
15	14th	Wang Dongfeng (born 1958)		March 10, 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 63 days	Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee	Wang Huning	[18]

See also

• National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
  • Chairperson
  • Vice-Chairpersons
• Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
  • Secretary-General

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