19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

19th Central Committee
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Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party
24 October 2017 – 21 October 2022 Overview
Type	Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Election	19th Congress
Leadership
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Politburo Standing Committee	7
Politburo	25
Secretariat	7
Members
Total	204
Alternates
Total	172
Apparatus
Head of General Office	Ding Xuexiang
No. of departments	4
Plenary sessions
1st: 25 October 2017 2nd: 18–19 January 2018 3rd: 26–28 February 2018 4th: 28–31 October 2019 5th: 26–29 October 2020 6th: 8–11 November 2021

The 19th Central Committee (19th CC) of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 19th National Congress in 2017, and sat until the next National Congress was convened in 2022. It formally succeeded the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and preceded the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

The committee is composed of full members and alternate members. A member has voting rights, while an alternate does not. If a full member is removed from the Central Committee the vacancy is then filled by an alternate member at the next committee plenum – the alternate member who received the most confirmation votes in favour is highest on the order of precedence. To be elected to the Central Committee, a candidate must be a party member for at least five years.^[1]

The first plenary session in 2017 was responsible for electing the bodies in which the authority of the Central Committee is invested when it is not in session: the Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee. It was also responsible for approving the members of the Secretariat, 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and its Standing Committee. The third plenary session in 2018 nominated candidates for state positions. The fourth plenary session issued a decision on modernizing governance.^[2]