Politics of Guangdong

The Politics of Guangdong follows a dual party-government system like the rest of China's provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon (Guangdong Xianxiang). The Guangdong Provincial People's Congress has enacted measures to increase democracy and transparency, and exert more control over the financial sector. In a well-publicized case in 2000, the Guangdong PPC also harshly criticized the Environmental Protection Bureau for allowing the construction of an electroplating park without a proper environmental impact investigation.^[1]

List of Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretaries

No.	Party chief	Term start	Term end	Notes
1	Ye Jianying	August 1949	July 1955	Civil War Communist general Marshal of the People's Republic of China Leading national figure in the late stages of the Cultural Revolution
2	Tao Zhu	July 1955	February 1965	Purged in 1967 during Cultural Revolution
3	Zhao Ziyang	February 1965	March 1967	Not a member of the CCP at the time Premier (1983–1987) General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)
4	Huang Yongsheng	February 1968	November 1969	General; close associate of Lin Biao Purged in 1972
5	Liu Xingyuan	November 1969	December 1972
6	Ding Sheng	December 1972	December 1973	General
7	Zhao Ziyang	April 1974	October 1975	Second term
8	Wei Guoqing	October 1975	December 1978	Director of the PLA's General Political Department (1977–1982)
9	Xi Zhongxun	December 1978	November 1980	Vice-Premier (1959–1962) Father of Xi Jinping
10	Ren Zhongyi	November 1980	July 1985
11	Lin Ruo	July 1985	January 1991
12	Xie Fei	January 1991	March 1998
13	Li Changchun	March 1998	November 2002	Politburo Standing Committee (2002–2012) National propaganda chief
14	Zhang Dejiang	November 2002	October 2007	Politburo Standing Committee (2012–2017) Chairman of the National People's Congress (2013–2018)
15	Wang Yang	October 2007	December 2012	Vice Premier (2013–2018) Politburo Standing Committee (2017–) Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (2018–)
16	Hu Chunhua	December 2012	October 2017
17	Li Xi	October 2017	October 2022
18	Huang Kunming	October 2022	incumbent

List of governors

Ye Jianying: November 1948 – September 1953
Tao Zhu: September 1953 – August 1957
Chen Yu: August 1957 – November 1967
Huang Yongsheng: November 1967 – June 1969
Liu Xingyuan: June 1969 – April 1972
Ding Sheng: April 1972 – April 1974
Zhao Ziyang: April 1974 – October 1975
Wei Guoqing: October 1975 – January 1979
Xi Zhongxun: (1979–1981)
Liu Tianfu: (1981–1983)
Liang Lingguang: (1983–1985)
Ye Xuanping: (1985–1991)
Zhu Senlin: (1991–1996)
Lu Ruihua: (1996–2003)
Huang Huahua: (2003–2011)
Zhu Xiaodan: (2011–2016)
Ma Xingrui: (2016–2021)^[2]
Wang Weizhong: (2021–present)^[3]

List of chairmen of Guangdong People's Congress

Li Jianzhen (李坚真): 1979–1983
Luo Tian (罗天): 1983–1990
Lin Ruo (林若): 1990–1996
Zhu Senlin (朱森林): 1996–2001
Zhang Guoying (张帼英): 2001–2003
Lu Zhonghe (卢钟鹤): 2003–2005
Huang Liman (黄丽满): 2005 – January 2008
Ou Guangyuan (欧广源): January 2008 – January 2013
Huang Longyun (黄龙云): January 2013 – January 2017
Li Yumei (李玉妹): January 2017- January 2022
Huang Chuping(黄楚平): January 2022 – present

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Tao Zhu (陶铸): 1955–1960　
Ou Mengjue (区梦觉): 1960–1967　
Wang Shoudao (王首道): 1977–1979　
Yin Linping (尹林平): 1979–1983　
Liang Weilin (梁威林): 1983–1985
Wu Nansheng (吴南生): 1985–1993　
Guo Rongchang (郭荣昌): 1993–2003　
Liu Fengyi (刘凤仪): 2003　
Chen Shaoji (陈绍基): 2004 – April 2009
Huang Longyun: 2009–2013
Zhu Mingguo: 2013–2014
Wang Rong: 2015–present

National Supervisory Commission

Shi Kehui (施克辉): 2018–2021
Song Fulong (宋福龙): 2021–present

References

^ Yang, Dali (2004). Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 273–274. ISBN 0-8047-5493-4.
^ Ni, Vincent (2021-12-26). "China replaces Xinjiang party boss associated with Uyghur crackdown". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.
^ Yi Yi (伊一) (27 December 2021). 王伟中代理广东省省长马兴瑞辞去省长职务. ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[Leviathan-1] Yang, Dali (2004). Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp. 273–274. ISBN 0-8047-5493-4.

[2] Ni, Vincent (2021-12-26). "China replaces Xinjiang party boss associated with Uyghur crackdown". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.

[3] Yi Yi (伊一) (27 December 2021). 王伟中代理广东省省长马兴瑞辞去省长职务. ce.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2021.

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