Zhao Leji is a Chinese politician who is the current chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chines
Zhao in 2026
At the closing meeting of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress in March 2024
Zhao with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Beijing, 29 January 2026
Zhao on March 14, 2025. Previously on 11 March, he missed the closing meeting of the third session of the 14th National People's Congress due to a respiratory tract infection.
The Communist Party of China, commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party, is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China. Founded in 1921, the CCP won the Chinese Civil War agai
Zhao Leji
…year, Zhao returned to the city to become a communications assistant at the Commerce Department of the Qinghai provincial government. Zhao joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1975 and entered Peking University in 1977 as a Worker-Peasant-Soldier student; he received an undergraduate degree of philosophy there in…
Site of the first CCP Congress, in the former Shanghai French Concession
Chinese communists celebrate Joseph Stalin's birthday, 1949.
The scenery of decorations at Tiananmen Square on 30 June 2021 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the CCP's founding
A monument dedicated to Karl Marx (left) and Friedrich Engels (right) in Shanghai