Cai Qi

Cai Qi (Chinese: 蔡奇; pinyin: Cài Qí; born December 5, 1955) is a Chinese politician, who is the current first-ranked secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party, fifth-ranking member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee and close associate and confidante of General Secretary Xi Jinping. He is also the serving directors of both the CCP General Office and General Secretary's office, both powerful and influential positions within the internal administrative apparatus of the CCP.

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Cai Qi
蔡奇
Cai in 2022
First-ranked Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 October 2022
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Wang Huning
Director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2023
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Ding Xuexiang
Director of the Office of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 March 2023
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Ding Xuexiang
Communist Party Secretary of Beijing
In office 27 May 2017 – 13 November 2022
Deputy	Chen Jining Yin Yong (Mayor)
Preceded by	Guo Jinlong
Succeeded by	Yin Li
Mayor of Beijing
In office 31 October 2016 – 27 May 2017 (Acting until 20 January 2017)
Party Secretary	Guo Jinlong
Preceded by	Wang Anshun
Succeeded by	Chen Jining
President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
In office 25 February 2018 – 13 March 2022
IOC President	Thomas Bach
Preceded by	Lee Hee-beom
Succeeded by	Giovanni Malagò
Chair of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
In office 9 June 2017 – 13 March 2022
Preceded by	Guo Jinlong
Succeeded by	Position dissolved
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-05) December 5, 1955 (age 67) Youxi County, Fujian, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1975–present)
Alma mater	Fujian Normal University

Cai began his career in Fujian province. He has served successively as the mayor of Sanming, the mayor of Quzhou, the mayor of Hangzhou and the Communist Party secretary of Taizhou, Zhejiang. Beginning in 2010 he served as the executive vice governor of Zhejiang Province, and in 2014 was transferred to Beijing to serve as deputy director of the CCP National Security Commission Office (rank equivalent of minister). Between 2017 and 2022, he was the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing. Largely due to Cai's extensive experience working in Zhejiang province, he is believed to be a political ally of CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping.