17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

17th Central Committee

16th ← → 18th
Emblem of the Communist Party of China
Duration	22 October 2007 – 15 November 2012
General Secretary	Hu Jintao
1st-ranked Secretary	Xi Jinping
Inner-groups	Politburo Standing Committee: 9 members Politburo: 25 members Secretariat: 7 members Military Commission: 7 members
No. of departments	4
Members	208 members and 167 alternates

The 17th Central Committee (17th CC) was elected by the 17th Congress on 21 October 2007, and sat until the 18th National Congress in 2012. The 17th CC is composed of full members and alternate members. A member has voting rights, while an alternate does not. If a full member is removed from the CC the vacancy is then filled by an alternate member at the next committee plenum — the alternate member who received the most confirmation votes in favour is highest on the order of precedence. To be elected to the Central Committee, a candidate must be a party member for at least five years.

Plenary sessions, apparatus heads, ethnicity, the Central Committee member- and alternate membership, Politburo membership, Secretariat membership, Central Military Commission members, Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection membership, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, offices an individual held, retirement, if the individual in question is military personnel, female, has been expelled, is currently under investigation or has retired:

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