Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China


Vice-Premiers of the State Council of the People's Republic of China are high-ranking executive assistants to the Premier. Generally, the title is held by multiple individuals at one time, with each Vice-Premier holding a broad portfolio of responsibilities. The highest-ranked office holder is informally called the First-ranked Vice-Premier. The first-ranked VP takes over duties of the Premier at the time of the latter's incapacity.
Current Vice-Premiers, in order of rank, are Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan, Hu Chunhua and Liu He.
In irregular instances, the position of a Senior Vice-Premier has been named either to indicate degree of power, nominal power, or when the Premier is incapacitated and requires a full-time assistant to carry out his regular duties. The most prominent case of this was Deng Xiaoping's incapacity between 1978 and 1980.

List of Vice-Premiers

Current Vice-Premiers