Paramount leader
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Paramount leader is an informal term for the most important political figure of the People's Republic of China. The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Lib
Xi Jinping, incumbent since 2012
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Generations of Chinese leadership is a term historians use to characterize distinct periods of Chinese Communist Party leadership and, by extension, successive changes in CCP ideology. Historians have
Simplified Chinese graphic timeline of CCP leadership to 2012. The red bar indicates CCP General Secretaries, the yellow indicating the Premiers. The gray bar delineates particular periods of mainland Chinese history from a CCP perspective.