Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs

The Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs is an internal policy coordination group of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, reporting to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, in charge of supervising and coordinating China's policy of unification towards Taiwan.

The first CCP decision-making body related to Taiwan was established in July 1954 by the CCP Central Committee based on Mao Zedong's suggestion, named the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs.

Since the PRC considers Taiwan part of its own territory, the group is outside China's foreign affairs system.

The group's executive arm is the Office of the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs, which has the external name of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council under the "one institution with two names" system.

Additionally, the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has been its deputy leader, while the director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission has been its secretary-general.