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CCP general secretary
Extracted from the Wikipedia article General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
Election and term of office
The CCP general secretary is officially elected by a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from among the members of the Politburo Standing Committee. In practice, the de facto method of selecting the general secretary has varied over time. According to the current CCP constitution, the term of office of the general secretary is the same as that of the Central Committee, which is five years. There is no limit to the number of consecutive terms, and theoretically, the officeholder can serve an unlimited number of terms.