Politics of Guangdong

The Politics of Guangdong follows a dual party-government system like the rest of China's provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon (Guangdong Xianxiang). The Guangdong Provincial People's Congress has enacted measures to increase democracy and transparency, and exert more control over the financial sector. In a well-publicized case in 2000, the Guangdong PPC also harshly criticized the Environmental Protection Bureau for allowing the construction of an electroplating park without a proper environmental impact investigation.

List of Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretaries

Main article: Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

No.	Party chief	Term start	Term end	Notes
1	Ye Jianying	August 1949	July 1955	Civil War Communist general Marshal of the People's Republic of China Leading national figure in the late stages of the Cultural Revolution
2	Tao Zhu	July 1955	February 1965	Purged in 1967 during Cultural Revolution
3	Zhao Ziyang	February 1965	March 1967	Not a member of the CCP at the time Premier (1983–1987) General Secretary of the Communist Party (1987–1989)
4	Huang Yongsheng	February 1968	November 1969	General; close associate of Lin Biao Purged in 1972
5	Liu Xingyuan	November 1969	December 1972
6	Ding Sheng	December 1972	December 1973	General
7	Zhao Ziyang	April 1974	October 1975	Second term
8	Wei Guoqing	October 1975	December 1978	Director of the PLA's General Political Department (1977–1982)
9	Xi Zhongxun	December 1978	November 1980	Vice-Premier (1959–1962) Father of Xi Jinping
10	Ren Zhongyi	November 1980	July 1985
11	Lin Ruo	July 1985	January 1991
12	Xie Fei	January 1991	March 1998
13	Li Changchun	March 1998	November 2002	Politburo Standing Committee (2002–2012) National propaganda chief
14	Zhang Dejiang	November 2002	October 2007	Politburo Standing Committee (2012–2017) Chairman of the National People's Congress (2013–2018)
15	Wang Yang	October 2007	December 2012	Vice Premier (2013–2018) Politburo Standing Committee (2017–) Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (2018–)
16	Hu Chunhua	December 2012	October 2017
17	Li Xi	October 2017	October 2022
18	Huang Kunming	October 2022	incumbent

List of governors

Main article: Governor of Guangdong

1. Ye Jianying: November 1948 – September 1953
2. Tao Zhu: September 1953 – August 1957
3. Chen Yu: August 1957 – November 1967
4. Huang Yongsheng: November 1967 – June 1969
5. Liu Xingyuan: June 1969 – April 1972
6. Ding Sheng: April 1972 – April 1974
7. Zhao Ziyang: April 1974 – October 1975
8. Wei Guoqing: October 1975 – January 1979
9. Xi Zhongxun: (1979–1981)
10. Liu Tianfu: (1981–1983)
11. Liang Lingguang: (1983–1985)
12. Ye Xuanping: (1985–1991)
13. Zhu Senlin: (1991–1996)
14. Lu Ruihua: (1996–2003)
15. Huang Huahua: (2003–2011)
16. Zhu Xiaodan: (2011–2016)
17. Ma Xingrui: (2016–2021)
18. Wang Weizhong: (2021–present)

List of chairmen of Guangdong People's Congress

1. Li Jianzhen (李坚真): 1979–1983
2. Luo Tian (罗天): 1983–1990
3. Lin Ruo (林若): 1990–1996
4. Zhu Senlin (朱森林): 1996–2001
5. Zhang Guoying (张帼英): 2001–2003
6. Lu Zhonghe (卢钟鹤): 2003–2005
7. Huang Liman (黄丽满): 2005 – January 2008
8. Ou Guangyuan (欧广源): January 2008 – January 2013
9. Huang Longyun (黄龙云): January 2013 – January 2017
10. Li Yumei (李玉妹): January 2017- January 2022
11. Huang Chuping(黄楚平): January 2022 – present

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

1. Tao Zhu (陶铸): 1955–1960　
2. Ou Mengjue (区梦觉): 1960–1967　
3. Wang Shoudao (王首道): 1977–1979　
4. Yin Linping (尹林平): 1979–1983　
5. Liang Weilin (梁威林): 1983–1985
6. Wu Nansheng (吴南生): 1985–1993　
7. Guo Rongchang (郭荣昌): 1993–2003　
8. Liu Fengyi (刘凤仪): 2003　
9. Chen Shaoji (陈绍基): 2004 – April 2009
10. Huang Longyun: 2009–2013
11. Zhu Mingguo: 2013–2014
12. Wang Rong: 2015–present

National Supervisory Commission

1. Shi Kehui (施克辉): 2018–2021
2. Song Fulong (宋福龙): 2021–present