19th CPC Central Committee

19th Central Committee

18th ← → 20th
Emblem of the Communist Party of China
Duration	24 October 2017 – present
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
1st-ranked Secretary	Wang Huning
Inner-groups	Politburo Standing Committee: 7 Politburo: 25 Secretariat: 7 Military Commission: 7
No. of departments	4
Members	204 members and 172 alternates

The 19th Central Committee (19th CC) of the Communist Party of China was elected by the 19th National Congress in 2017, and will sit until the next National Congress is convened in 2022. The Committee 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 Central Committee 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.

The first plenary session in 2017 was responsible for electing the bodies in which the authority of the Central Committee is invested when it is not in session: the Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee. It will be also responsible for approving the members of the Secretariat, 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and its Standing Committee. The third plenary session in 2018 nominated candidates for state positions.

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: