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===Politburo Standing Committee===

===Politburo Standing Committee===

The 7 member Politburo Standing Committee is the most senior leadership body with each member ranked 1 thru 7, not as equals.  Each shoulders primary responsibility for a specific portfolio.  The Paramount Leader, Xi Jinping as of 2020, is ranked No. 1.  

The 7 member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) is the most senior leadership body with each member ranked 1 thru 7, not as equals.  Each shoulders primary responsibility for a specific portfolio.  The Paramount Leader, Xi Jinping as of 2020, is ranked No. 1.  

The Paramount Leader usually holds three positions, Party General Secretary, President or [[Head of State]], and Chairman of the Central Military Commission or [[Commander-in-chief]] of the [[People's Liberation Army]].

The Paramount Leader usually holds three positions, Party General Secretary, President or [[Head of State]], and Chairman of the Central Military Commission or [[Commander-in-chief]] of the [[People's Liberation Army]].  The Central Military Commission is not under civilian control of the State Council.  In the Chinese Communist party structure, the Central Military Commission is of equal rank as the civilian bureaucracy.

The head of the party's internal enforcement arm, the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee.

The second-ranked PSC member serves as Premier of the State Council, which manages the state bureaucracy. He is effectively China’s top economic official.  

In February 2018 the CCP disposed of rules of succession and made Xi Jinping ruler for life.<ref>https://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/ccp/</ref>

The third-ranked PSC member serves as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s unicameral legislature.

[[Term limits]] had been put in place after the murderous reign of Chairman Mao and the [[Gang of Four]].  Those reforms were originally among the conditions or protocols of accession for China's membership in the [[WTO]].

 

The fourth-ranked PSC member serves as chairman of a political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee. He is responsible for outreach to non-Communist groups, such as China’s eight minor political parties, all of which pledge loyalty to the Communist Party, and state-sanctioned religious associations.

 

The fifth-ranked PSC member heads the Party Secretariat, which oversees the Party bureaucracy. He also has responsibility for ideology and propaganda.

 

The sixth-ranked PSC member heads the Party’s Central Disciplinary Inspection Commission (CDIC), the Party's internal discipline enforcement arm which polices the Party’s ranks.

 

The seventh-ranked PSC member serves as the top-ranked State Council vice premier and assists the Premier with his duties.

===Politburo===

===Politburo===