Governor of Fujian in the context of Civil service of the People's Republic of China

Xi Jinping (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Since 2013, Xi has also served as the president of China. As a member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership, Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

The son of Chinese communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Liangjiahe Village, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local party secretary. After studying chemical engineering at Tsinghua University as a worker-peasant-soldier student, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, before becoming governor and party secretary of neighboring Zhejiang from 2002 to 2007. Following the dismissal of the party secretary of Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, Xi was transferred to replace him for a brief period in 2007. He subsequently joined the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) of the CCP the same year and was the first-ranking member of the Central Secretariat in October 2007. In 2008, he was designated as Hu Jintao's presumed successor as paramount leader. Towards this end, Xi was appointed the vice president and vice chairman of the CMC. He officially received the title of leadership core from the CCP in 2016.

The Fujian Provincial People's Government (Chinese: 福建省人民政府; pinyin: Fújiànshěng Rénmín Zhèngfǔ) is the local administrative agency of Fujian. It is officially elected by the Fujian Provincial People's Congress and is formally responsible to the Fujian Provincial People's Congress and its Standing Committee (zh). Under the country's one-party system, the governor is subordinate to the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The Provincial government is headed by a governor, currently Zhao Long.

The secretary of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the secretary is the highest ranking post in Fujian.

The secretary is officially appointed by the CCP Central Committee based on the recommendation of the CCP Organization Department, which is then approved by the Politburo and its Standing Committee. The secretary can be also appointed by a plenary meeting of the Fujian Provincial Committee, but the candidate must be the same as the one approved by the central government. The secretary leads the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee, and is usually a member of the CCP Central Committee. The secretary leads the work of the Provincial Committee and its Standing Committee. The secretary outranks the governor, who is generally the deputy secretary of the committee.

Zhao Long (Chinese: 赵龙; born September 1967) is a Chinese politician who is the current governor of Fujian, in office since 22 October 2021.