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General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and de facto leader of China

9 dated entries naming General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, drawn from 8 separate years between 1926 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1926August 17 – Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (d. 2022)source
  • 1953June 15 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Paramount leader of Chinasource
  • 1987January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives.source
  • 1989April 15 – Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, dies. The public reaction to his death spawned a chain of events which led to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.source

21st century

  • 2002November 15 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.source
  • 2012November 15 – After the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping succeeds Hu Jintao as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and becomes the top leader of China.source
  • 2017October 25 – At the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping assumes his second term as General Secretary (China's paramount leader), and the political theory Xi Jinping Thought is written into the party's constitution.source
  • 2022November 30 – Jiang Zemin, 96, Chinese politician, general secretary of the Communist Party (1989–2002) and president (1993–2003), mayor of Shanghai (1985–1988), leukemia and multiple organ failure.source
  • 2022October 16–October 23 – The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held. Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary by the Central Committee, beginning a third term as the paramount leader of China.source

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