Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party

Central Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
Central Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
Simplified Chinese	中国共产党中央书记处
Traditional Chinese	中國共產黨中央書記處
Literal meaning	China Communist Party Central Secretariat
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Shūjìchù
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	书记处
Literal meaning	Secretariat
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shūjìchù

**Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party**
*中国共产党中央书记处*
Information
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
First-ranked secretary	Cai Qi
Members	Cai Qi; Shi Taifeng; Li Ganjie; Li Shulei; Chen Wenqing; Liu Jinguo; Wang Xiaohong;
Elected by	Central Committee
Responsible to	Politburo and its Standing Committee
Seats	7
Meeting place
	Qinzheng Hall, Zhongnanhai; Beijing, China

The Secretariat, officially the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is a body serving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Politburo and Standing Committee. The secretariat is mainly responsible for carrying out routine operations of the Politburo and coordinating organizations and stakeholders to achieve tasks set out by the Politburo. It is empowered by the Politburo to make routine day-to-day decisions on issues of concern in accordance with the decisions of the Politburo, but it must consult the Politburo on substantive matters.^{[citation needed]}

The secretariat was set up in January 1934. It is nominally headed by the CCP general secretary, though the position of head of the secretariat was not always the same as the top party leader.^{[citation needed]} Secretaries of the secretariat (Shujichu Shuji) are considered some of the most important political positions in the CCP and contemporary China, more generally. Each secretariat secretary is generally in charge of one of the major party departments directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Committee. By protocol, its members are ranked above the vice chairmen of the National People's Congress as well as State Councilors.^{[citation needed]} The General Secretary presides over the secretariat's work.^{[citation needed]}

^ Su, Weimin (30 May 2011). "十一屆三中全會后的中南海" [Zhongnanhai after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee]. People's Daily (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

[1] Su, Weimin (30 May 2011). "十一屆三中全會后的中南海" [Zhongnanhai after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee]. People's Daily (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2019.

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