Director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party


The director of the General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the General Office of the [Chinese Communist Party|General Office] of the Central Committee of the Chinese [Communist Party|Central Committee] of the Chinese Communist Party. The director oversees the daily operations of the CCP Central Committee.
Although the General Office's business is often not overtly political, the directors have historically had close connections with the CCP's top leaders, and usually join the Politburo or the Secretariat after their period leading the General Office. The director of the General office has been informally referred to as the "Danei Zongguan", roughly translated as "the gatekeeper". While the director of the General Office is sometimes referred to as an analogue to the party General Secretary's "Chief of Staff", the general secretary also maintains a personal staff as part of the Office of the General Secretary, whose director may also, but not necessarily, conterminously hold the position of director of the General Office.
The current director of the General Office is Cai Qi, who is the fifth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

List of directors

; Director of the General Office of the Central Secretariat
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Li Fuchun1942October 1945
Yang ShangkunOctober 1945May 1948

; Director of the General Office of the Central Committee
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Yang ShangkunMay 1948November 1965
Wang DongxingNovember 1965December 1978
Yao YilinDecember 1978April 1982
Hu QiliApril 1982June 1983
Qiao ShiJune 1983April 1984
Wang ZhaoguoApril 1984April 1986
Wen JiabaoApril 1986March 1993
Zeng QinghongMarch 1993March 1999
Wang GangMarch 1999September 2007
Ling Jihua19 September 200731 August 2012
Li Zhanshu31 August 2012November 2015
Ding Xuexiang15 November 2017March 2023
Cai QiMarch 2023Incumbent