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HOW THE CCP RULES: MILITARY ANTI-CORRUPTION PARTY AFFAIRS CHINA’S LEADERSHIP AFTER THE 19TH PARTY Zhang Chunxian MASS ORGANIZATIONS CONGRESS Current position unclear 64 NOTE: ONLY 19TH CCP-CC MEMBERS DISPLAYED Liu Qibao KEY: Current position unlcear 64 Huang Kunming S “The Core” of the Leadership Director, CCP-CC Wei Fenghe Propaganda Member, CMC; Department Members of the CCP-CC Politburo Standing State Councilor, Minister 61 of National Defense? Yang Xiaodu S Committee (PSC) (National rank) 63 1st Ranked Vice Secretary, CCDI Chen Xi S Ding Xuexiang S Shen Yueyue Members of the CCP-CC Politburo (PB) 64 Director, CCP- Director, CCP-CC (Vice Chair, NPC-SC; (Vice-National rank) CC Organization General Office Chair, All-China Women’s Xu Qiliang Department 55 Federation) Vice Chair, CMC 64 60 Other Leaders of Party and State (non-PSC or PB 67 leaders ranked Vice-National or above) Zhang Youxia (Non-CCP heads of Mass Vice Chair, CMC Org. not individually listed) Name 67 Position Name, position, and age of leader 6 Age FOREIGN POLICY Zhao Leji Yang Jiechi Secretary, 5 Wang Huning (State Councillor in charge 1st Ranked Secretary, 1 Official order of PSC Members CCDI S of Foreign, Taiwan, Hong 60 CCP-CC Secretariat Kong, and Macau Affairs) (Director, CCP-CC S Secretary, CCP-CC Secretariat (Vice-National rank) 67 Policy Research Office) 62 ( ) Current position from pre-19th Party Congress 1 || 1st Ranked Vice Chair, PRC People’s Republic of China XI JINPING LEGISLATURE 3 NPC-SC || General Secretary, CCP-CC Li Zhanshu Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (President, PRC) CCP-CC || Chair, NPC-SC? || (Eleven other Vice Chairs Chairman, CMC 67 Wang Chen of the NPC-SC, includes Central Military Commission (Vice Chair, Secretary CMC 64 2 non-CCP vice chairs, POLICY ADVISORY General, NPC-SC) Li Keqiang 67 some will retire in March (Premier, State NPC-SC National People’s Congress Standing Committee State Councilor, Minister of 2018) S Council) Public Security Guo Shengkun 62 CPPCC Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Zhao Kezhi Secretary, CCP-CC Political Appointed as Minister of Public Legal Commission Han Zheng 7 Security, expected to become 63 4 st Liu He State Councilor in March 2018. Wang Yang || 1 ranked Vice- CCDI CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Premier? || || ??Vice Premier?? || || Chair, CPPCC? || 63 (Director, Office of the CCP-CC Cai Qi (Vice Premier) Leading Group on Finance and Zhou Qiang (PS Beijing) 62 PS CCP Party Secretary Economics) (President, Supreme 62 65 People’s Court) Li Qiang Li Hongzhong ? Implied new position, awaiting formal appointment 57 PS Shanghai (PS Tianjin) Sun Chunlan 58 61 || State Councilor, Secretary || ??Vice Premier?? || General of the State Council || ?? ?? Speculated position, not yet confirmed Cao Jianming 67 Xiao Jie? (Procurator General, Li Xi Chen Quanguo PS Guangdong Currently (Minister of Finance), Supreme People’s (PS Xijiang) Hu Chunhua Name New to the Politburo 61 62 Vice Secretary General of the State Procuratorate) || ??Vice Premier?? || Council, appointed to party position 62 54 usually held by the Secretary th Chen Min’er || || Position currently occupied by non-19 CCP-CC General of the State Council (PS Chongqing) members; new appointment to be made. 57 Wang Yong (State Councillor in charge of State Owned Enterprises, Industry and Commerce, and Production Safety) You Quan S 62 Director, CCP-CC United Front JUDICIARY AND JUDICIARY DOMESTIC SECURITY Work Department 63 (Twenty other Vice Chairs of the CPPCC, includes non-CCP vice chairs, some will retire in March 2018) ECONOMY AND GOV. KEY LOCALITIES UNITED FRONT INFOGRAPHIC BY YUANZHUO WANG AND JAMES EVANS ADMINISTRATION SOURCES: XINHUA NEWS AGENCY AND OTHER NEWS SOUTRCES.
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