:Vice Premier of China

{{Short description|Senior official position in the government of China}}

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{{Infobox official post

| post = Vice Premier

| body = the State Council of the People's Republic of China

| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|中华人民共和国国务院副总理}}}}

| insignia = National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (2).svg

| insigniacaption = National Emblem of China

| insigniasize = 100px

| flag = Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg

| flagsize = 125px

| flagcaption = Flag of China

| image = {{multiple image

| border = infobox

| total_width = 250

| image_style = border:1;

| perrow = 2/2

| image1 = Ding Xuexiang (20230313).jpg

| link1 = Ding Xuexiang

| image2 = He Lifeng (20230313).jpg

| link2 = He Lifeng

| image3 = Zhang Guoqing (20230313).jpg

| link3 = Zhang Guoqing

| image4 = Liu Guozhong (20230313).jpg

| link4 = Liu Guozhong

}}

| incumbent = Ding Xuexiang
He Lifeng
Zhang Guoqing
Liu Guozhong

| incumbentsince = 12 March 2023

| residence = Premier's Office, Zhongnanhai

| seat = Beijing

| style = Vice Premier ({{lang|zh-hans|副总理}})
{{small|(informal)}}

| reports_to = Premier of the State Council

| nominator = Premier of the State Council

| appointer = President

| termlength = Five years, renewable once consecutively

| formation = {{start date and age|df=y|1954|9}}

| precursor = Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council of the Central People's Government

| inaugural = Chen Yun

| constituting_instrument = Constitution of China

| website = [http://english.gov.cn State Council]

| department = State Council of the People's Republic of China

| appointer_qualified = pursuant to a National People's Congress decision

| member_of = {{ubl|Plenary Meeting of the State Council||Executive Meeting of the State Council}}

| termlength_qualified =

| status = Deputy national-level official

}}

{{Chinese

| title = Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China

| s = 中华人民共和国国务院副总理

| t = 中華人民共和國國務院副總理

| p = Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Guówùyuàn Fùzǒnglǐ

| w = Chung¹-hua² Jên²-min² Kung⁴-ho²-kuo² Kuo²-wu⁴-yüan⁴ Fu⁴-tsung³-li³

| s2 = 国务院副总理

| t2 = 國務院副總理

| p2 = Guówùyuàn Fùzǒnglǐ

| w2 = Kuo²-wu⁴-yüan⁴ Fu⁴-tsung³-li³

| links = no

| order = st

}}

{{Politics of China |expanded = Executive }}

The vice premiers of the State Council of the People's Republic of China serves as a deputy leader within the State Council. In terms of administrative hierarchy, the Vice Premier holds a position superior to that of ministers, commission directors, and the Secretary-General of the State Council, while remaining subordinate to the Premier and holding a rank equivalent to that of State Councilors.{{Cite web |title=Organic Law of the State Council of the People's Republic of China |work=National People's Congress |date= |access-date=19 November 2021 |url= http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Law/2007-12/13/content_1384048.htm}} Generally, the title is held by multiple individuals at any given time, with each vice-premier holding a broad portfolio of responsibilities. The first vice-premier takes over duties of the premier at the time of the latter's incapacity. The incumbent vice premiers, in order of rank, are Ding Xuexiang, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing and Liu Guozhong.

The highest-ranked office holder is informally called the Senior Vice Premier or First Vice Premier ({{zh |s = 第一副总理 }}) or Executive Vice Premier ({{zh |s = 常务副总理 }}), a most prominent case being Deng Xiaoping in the mid-to-late 1970s.{{cite web | title=Senior Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping (Deng Xiaoping) speaking during dinner hosted by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Lee in honour of the visiting People's Republic of China Senior Vice-Premier and delegation at Istana | work=National Archives of Singapore | url=https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/b87ae438-1162-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad | access-date=2021-11-20}}{{cite journal | last1=Xia | first1=Yafeng | last2=Shen | first2=Zhihua | title=China's Last Ally: Beijing's Policy toward North Korea during the U.S.–China Rapprochement, 1970–1975 | journal=Diplomatic History | publisher=Oxford University Press | volume=38 | issue=5 | year=2014 | issn=0145-2096 | jstor=26376623 | pages=1083–1113 | doi=10.1093/dh/dht120 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376623 | access-date=2021-11-20}} 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 deputy to carry out his regular duties.