Go to the Media Bank > A total of 11 women were included in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China of the 20th convocation following the results of the CPC regular congress held in Beijing, follows from the published list of members of the CPC Central Committee. The new Central Committee consists of 205 people, that is, the proportion of women in it is only 5.36 %, however, this is still more than in the 19th CPC Central Committee, where, with a total number of 204 people, there were 10 women (that is, 4.9%).
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has a chance to enter the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, media reportedThe status of women in China has noticeably strengthened in recent years, they are included in the lists of the country's richest residents, run corporations, and occupy prominent positions. Women have even been able to break into top positions in Taiwan and Hong Kong. However, the circle of the political elite in mainland China still includes only men. The Standing Committee of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee has continued to be an exclusively male club since its inception. For more than a century of the history of the party, women have been able to break through only in the Politburo, of which at the moment there is only one woman — Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Sun Chunlan, on Saturday her last day in the Politburo, and in March she will finally retire and with civil service, as she is already 72 years old. All ministerial posts in China are occupied by men, at the regional level, only one woman occupies a high leading party position — this is the secretary of the party committee of Guizhou Province Chen Yiqin (since 2020), in the entire history of the CCP, she became the third a woman as head of the regional party committee after Sun Chunlan and Wan Shaofeng.Xi Jinping further cemented her role in the Party Charter. Chen Yiqin joined the CPC Central Committee at the 19th Congress in 2017, becoming the youngest female member of the Central Committee. She was also elected to the Central Committee of the 20th convocation. Analysts consider her the only candidate to replace Sun Chunlan in the Politburo, since the post of head of the party committee of a province or city of central subordination is considered the most suitable position for entering the Politburo. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government Wang Lixia, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee Li Xiaoxin, Deputy Secretary of the CPPCC National Committee Zou Jiayi, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Committee, Chairman of the All China Women's Federation Shen Yueyue, Head of the Office of the State Council for Overseas Chinese Affairs Chen Xu, Vice Secretary of the Party Group of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China He Rong, party secretary of the All China Women's Federation Huang Xiaowei, deputy secretary of the party group of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Liang Huiling, vice secretary of the party committee of Anhui Province Cheng Lihua.
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