| Leaders of all central committees of the Communist Party of China (CPC) are as follows:
-- Chen Duxiu, secretary of the CPC Central Bureau, was elected at the first CPC National Congress in July 1921.
-- Chen Duxiu, chairman of the CPC Central Executive Committee, was elected at the second CPC National Congress in July 1922.
-- Chen Duxiu, chairman of the CPC Central Executive Committee, was elected at the third CPC National Congress in June 1923.
-- Chen Duxiu, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the fourth CPC National Congress in January 1925.
-- Chen Duxiu, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the fifth CPC National Congress from April to May 1927.
-- Xiang Zhongfa, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the sixth CPC National Congress from June to July 1928. (Wang Ming replaced Xiang as the acting general secretary of the CPC Central Committee after Xiang was arrested by the Kuomintang regime in 1931.)
-- Bogu (Qin Bangxian) became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the fifth plenary meeting of the sixth CPC Central Committee in January 1934.
-- Zhang Wentian (Luofu), general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the extended meeting of the CPC Central Committee Politburo in January 1935 in Zunyi, Guizhou Province.
-- Mao Zedong began to act as chairman of the CPC Central Committee at the first plenary meeting of the seventh CPC Central Committee in June 1945.
-- Mao Zedong, chairman of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the eighth CPC Central Committee in September 1956.
-- Mao Zedong, chairman of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the ninth CPC Central Committee in April 1969.
-- Mao Zedong, chairman of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the tenth CPC Central Committee in August 1973.
-- Hua Guofeng, chairman of the CPC Central Committee, was nominated and approved at the meeting of the CPC Central Committee Politburo in October 1976, and endorsed at the third plenary meeting of the tenth CPC Central Committee in July 1977.
-- Hua Guofeng, chairman of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Central Committee in August 1977.
-- Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the fifth plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Central Committee in February 1980.
-- Hu Yaobang, chairman of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the sixth plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Central Committee in June 1981.
-- Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the 12th CPC Central Committee in September 1982.
-- Zhao Ziyang became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the first plenary meeting of the 13th CPC Central Committee in November 1987.
-- Jiang Zemin became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the fourth plenary meeting of the 13th CPC Central Committee in June 1989.
-- Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the 14th CPC Central Committee in October 1992.
-- Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the 15th CPC Central Committee in September 1997.
-- Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, was elected at the first plenary meeting of the 16th CPC Central Committee in November 2002.
(Xinhua News Agency October 15, 2007)
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