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]
№ | Party chief | Term start | Term end | Notes |
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1 | Ye Jianying (叶剑英) | 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 (陶铸) | July 1955 | February 1965 | Purged in 1967 during Cultural Revolution |
3 | Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳) | February 1965 | March 1967 | Not a member of the CCP at the time Premier (1983–87) General Secretary of the Communist Party(1987–89) |
4 | Huang Yongsheng (黄永胜) | February 1968 | November 1969 | General; close associate of Lin Biao Purged in 1972 |
5 | Liu Xingyuan (刘兴元) | November 1969 | December 1972 | |
6 | Ding Sheng (丁盛) | December 1972 | December 1973 | General |
7 | Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳) | April 1974 | October 1975 | Second term |
8 | Wei Guoqing (韦国清) | October 1975 | December 1978 | Director of the PLA's General Political Department (1977–82) |
9 | Xi Zhongxun (习仲勋) | December 1978 | November 1980 | Vice-Premier (1959–62) Father of Xi Jinping |
10 | Ren Zhongyi (任仲夷) | November 1980 | July 1985 | |
11 | Lin Ruo (林若) | July 1985 | January 1991 | |
12 | Xie Fei (谢非) | January 1991 | March 1998 | |
13 | Li Changchun (李长春) | March 1998 | November 2002 | Politburo Standing Committee (2002–12) National propaganda chief |
14 | Zhang Dejiang (张德江) | November 2002 | October 2007 | Politburo Standing Committee (2012–2017) Chairman of the National People's Congress (2013–2018) |
15 | Wang Yang (汪洋) | 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 (胡春华) | December 2012 | October 2017 | |
17 | Li Xi (李希) | October 2017 | October 2022 | |
18 | Huang Kunming (黄坤明) | October 2022 |