Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party


The Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Shaanxi, China, and is the province's top authority. The CCP committee secretary is the highest ranking post in the province.
In December 2024, the Publicity Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the CCP partnered with Shaanxi Television and Radio Group to form an international communication center.

History

In early July 1927, Feng Yuxiang allied with Chiang Kai-shek to form a new government in Shaanxi and the Nationalists implemented the White Terror in Shaanxi. The Nationalist crackdown included a focus on eliminating CCP presence in schools. By September 1927, they had killed 496 people including students. CCP central authorities ordered the Shaanxi party branch to respond with peasant revolts. These early responses failed and in March 1928 the Weihua Uprising began.
Following the initial failures of 1928, the Shaanxi Provincial Committee redesignated local guerrilla forces as the Twenty-sixth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1932. This force, led by Xie Zichang and Liu Zhidan, became the backbone of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Base Area.
In February 1929, Nationalist authorities captured a Communist Youth League official who then betrayed the CCP, leading to the arrest of most of the Shaanxi Party Committee's leadership. During the ensuing crackdown, the number of CCP members in Shaanxi decreased from 3,000 to 1,300.
In November 1933, the Special Committee of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Area merged the main Red Army force with local units to form the Forty-second Division, significantly increasing the CCP's military presence in the region.
Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang officially combined the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region with northern Shaanxi party bodies, forming the Northwest Work Committee to unify local revolutionary efforts against Nationalist suppression campaigns.
Following the unification efforts of the Northwest Work Committee, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Area Soviet Government was officially established in Nanliang, Huachi County. Xi Zhongxun was elected chairman of this government at the age of 21.
By late 1934, the unified Shaanxi-Gansu and Northern Shaanxi bases covered more than 20 counties, providing a stable territorial foothold hat would later prove indispensable for the Central Red Army's arrival at the end of the Long March.
In December 2024, the Publicity Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee partnered with Shaanxi Television and Radio Group to form an international communication center. In August 2025, the committee's Publicity Department signed a cooperation agreement with China Daily.

Organizations

The organization of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee includes:

Functional Departments

Offices

  • Policy Research Office
  • Office of the Cyberspace Affairs Commission
  • Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission
  • Office of the Deepening Reform Commission
  • Office of the Institutional Organization Commission
  • Office of the Military-civilian Fusion Development Committee
  • Taiwan Work Office
  • Office of the Leading Group for Inspection Work
  • Bureau of Veteran Cadres

Dispatched institutions

  • Working Committee of the Organs Directly Affiliated to the Shaanxi Provincial Committee

Organizations directly under the Committee

  • Shaanxi Party School
  • Shaanxi Institute of Socialism
  • Party History Research Office
  • Shaanxi Provincial Archives
  • Lecturer Group

Organization managed by the work organization

  • Confidential Bureau