The attendance list of the White House state banquet confirms: Zhou Hongxu has concurrently served as deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The White House held a state banquet for Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 24th. Hong Kong media reported that according to the attendance list announced by the United States, there were 19 people from China, including Zhou Hongxu, deputy director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Central Security Bureau. It was confirmed that Zhou Hongxu has concurrently served as deputy director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.

Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily reported yesterday that 55-year-old Zhou Hongxu will serve as director of the Security Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China around 2021. In the middle of this month, when Xi Jinping held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, Zhou Hongxu, a Chinese negotiator, rarely wore a suit instead of a military uniform. Therefore, the outside world speculated that he was also the deputy director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China.

According to an earlier report by Hong Kong Ming Pao, the Central Guard Bureau is mainly responsible for protecting the security of China's top leaders and Zhongnanhai. It is affiliated to the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission. It is a PLA establishment at the deputy military region level. It has no local agencies. It is directly led by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and is both police and military. It is a very special force.

Reports indicate that the Central Security Bureau chief rarely publicly participates in leadership talks, but former leader Deng Xiaoping and Yang Dezhong and You Xigui, directors of the Central Security Bureau during the Jiang Zemin era, also served as deputy directors of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.

Zhou Hongxu holds a master's degree from the Army Artillery Academy. He was the commander of the 40th Division Artillery Regiment of the 14th Group Army, the former director of the Military Training Department of the Chengdu Military Region Headquarters, and the deputy chief of staff of the Army in the Northern Theater Command.

Xi Jinping arrived in the United States on the evening of the 23rd Eastern Time for a three-day state visit. He was personally picked up by US President Trump, greeted with military salutes, and given a state banquet.