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Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China
Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China
中国共产党中央军事委员会主席
中华人民共和国中央军事委员会主席
Emblem of the Chinese Communist Party
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Incumbent
Xi Jinping
since November 11, 2012 (party commission)
14 March 2013 (state commission)
Central Military Commission
Style
TypeCommander-in-chief
StatusNational leader level official
ResidenceZhongnanhai
Seat"August 1st Building", Beijing
NominatorParty Central Committee (party commission)
Presidium of the National People's Congress (state commission)
AppointerParty Central Committee (party commission)
National People's Congress (state commission)
Term lengthFive years, renewable
Inaugural holderZhang Guotao (party commission)
Mao Zedong (state commission)
FormationDecember 1925; 98 years ago (1925-12) (party commission)
October 1949; 75 years ago (1949-10) (state commission)
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The chairman of the Central Military Commission (Chinese: 中央军事委员会主席) is the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the People's Armed Police (PAP) and the Militia. The officeholder is additionally vested with the command authority over China's nuclear arsenals.

There are technically two offices with the same name, including the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) CMC and chairman of the People's Republic of China (PRC) CMC. However, under the arrangement of "one institution with two names", they function as one office.[1] The officeholder is usually the CCP general secretary.

According to both the CCP constitution and the state constitution, the chairman assumes overall responsibility over the work of the CMC.[2][3] The office confers military ranks, though regulations stipulate that no military rank shall be conferred on the chairman themselves.[4]

Election

According to the Constitution, the state CMC chairman is responsible to the National People's Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee.[2] The state CMC chairman is officially nominated by the Presidium of the NPC during a session and approved by the delegations of the NPC,[5] and its term of office is the same as the NPC.[2] According to the Party constitution, the Party CMC chairman is officially elected by the CCP's Central Committee.[3]

List of chairmen

Party

The following have held the position of chair of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party:

No. Portrait Name
(birth–death) 		Term of office
Took office Left office Time in office
Head of the Military Department
1 Zhang Guotao
(1897–1979) 		December 1925 September 1926 9 months
Secretary of the Central Military Commission
2 Zhou Enlai
(1898–1976) 		September 1926 October 1928 2 years, 1 month
Head of the Military Department
3 Yang Yin
(1892–1929) 		October 1928 September 1929 11 months
(2) Zhou Enlai
(1898–1976) 		September 1929 March 1930 6 months
Secretary of the Central Military Commission
4 Guan Xiangying
(1902–1946) 		March 1930 August 1930 5 months
(2) Zhou Enlai
(1898–1976) 		August 1930 June 1931 10 months
Head of the Military Department
5 Li Fuchun
(1900–1975) 		June 1931 January 1932 7 months
Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Soviet Republic
6 Xiang Ying
(c. 1895–1941) 		January 1932 October 1932 9 months
7 Zhu De
(1886–1976) 		October 1932 December 1936 4 years, 2 months
8 Mao Zedong
(1893–1976) 		December 1936 1 October 1949 12 years, 10 months
Abolished
1 October 1949 – 8 September 1954
Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party
(8) Mao Zedong
(1893–1976) 		8 September 1954 9 September 1976 † 22 years, 1 day
9 File:Portrait of Hua Guofeng.jpg Hua Guofeng
(1921–2008) 		7 October 1976 28 June 1981 4 years, 264 days
10 Deng Xiaoping
(1904–1997) 		28 June 1981 9 November 1989 8 years, 134 days
11 Jiang Zemin
(1926–2022) 		9 November 1989 19 September 2004 14 years, 315 days
12 Hu Jintao
(born 1942) 		19 September 2004 15 November 2012 8 years, 57 days
13 Xi Jinping
(born 1953) 		15 November 2012 Incumbent 11 years, 356 days

State

The following have held the position of chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China:

No. Portrait Name
(birth–death) 		Term of office
Took office Left office Time in office
Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government
1 Mao Zedong
(1893–1976) 		1 October 1949 27 September 1954 4 years, 361 days
Chairman of the People's Republic of China & Chairman of the National Defense Council
(1) Mao Zedong
(1893–1976) 		27 September 1954 27 April 1959 4 years, 212 days
2 Liu Shaoqi
(1898–1969) 		27 April 1959 31 October 1968 9 years, 187 days
Vacant
31 October 1968 – 17 January 1975
Abolished
17 January 1975 – December 1982
Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China
3 Deng Xiaoping
(1904–1997) 		6 June 1983 19 March 1990 6 years, 284 days
4 Jiang Zemin
(1926–2022) 		19 March 1990 8 March 2005 14 years, 354 days
5 Hu Jintao
(born 1942) 		8 March 2005 14 March 2013 8 years, 6 days
6 Xi Jinping
(born 1953) 		14 March 2013 Incumbent 11 years, 236 days

See also

References

  1. ^ Liu, Zhen (18 October 2022). "What is China's Central Military Commission and why is it so powerful?". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Constitution of the People's Republic of China". National People's Congress. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b Panyue, Huang (27 October 2022). "Full text of Constitution of Communist Party of China - China Military". China Military. Xinhua News Agency. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Regulations on the Military Ranks of Officers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army". National People's Congress. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Organic Law of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China". National People's Congress. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
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