Chinese Communist Party

Extracted Attributes

• Country

  People's Republic of China

• Founders

  Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao

• Ideology

  Marxist–Leninist, Socialism with Chinese characteristics

• Common Name

  Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

• Headquarters

  Zhongnanhai, Beijing, People's Republic of China

• Highest Body

  National Congress

• Founding Date

  1921-07-23

• Official Name

  Communist Party of China (CPC)

• Current Leader

  Xi Jinping

• Ruling Party of

  People's Republic of China

• Most Powerful Bodies

  Politburo, Politburo Standing Committee

• Secondary Highest Body

  Central Committee

• Membership (as of 2022)

  Over 96 million members

• Membership (as of 2024)

  Over 100 million members

• Organizational Principle

  Democratic centralism

Timeline

• The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with assistance from the Soviet Union and the Communist International. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  1921-07-23

• A violent split occurred with the Kuomintang (KMT) when its right-wing, led by Chiang Kai-shek, massacred tens of thousands of CCP members, initiating a prolonged civil war. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  1927

• During the period of guerrilla warfare, Mao Zedong rose to become the most influential figure in the CCP, establishing a strong rural base through land reform policies. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1927-1937

• Support for the CCP grew significantly throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1937-1945

• Following victory in the communist revolution against the Nationalist government, the CCP proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under the chairmanship of Mao Zedong. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia, web_search_results)

  1949-10-01

• The remnants of the Nationalist government (Kuomintang) retreated to Taiwan shortly after the PRC's establishment. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1949

• Mao Zedong died, having led the CCP through land reforms, a series of five-year plans, and a split with the Soviet Union. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1976

• Mao's policies of purging capitalist elements during the Cultural Revolution were briefly continued by the Gang of Four before a less radical faction seized control. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1976-1978

• Deng Xiaoping directed the CCP away from Maoist orthodoxy towards a policy of economic liberalization, explaining it as China being in the primary stage of socialism. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1980s

• Following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the CCP focused on maintaining relations with other communist states and establishing ties with non-communist parties globally. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  1991

• Xi Jinping was elected General Secretary of the CCP at the 1st Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2012-11-15

• Xi Jinping was reelected General Secretary by the 19th Central Committee. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2017-10-25

• Xi Jinping was reelected General Secretary by the 20th Central Committee. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2022-10-10

Chinese Communist Party

The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP won the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang and proclaimed the establishment of the PRC under the chairmanship of Mao Zedong in October 1949. The CCP has since governed China and has had sole control over the country's armed forces and law enforcement. As of 2024, the CCP has more than 100 million members, making it the second largest political party by membership in the world. In 1921, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao founded the CCP with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist International. Although the CCP aligned with the Kuomintang (KMT) during its initial years, the rise of the KMT's right-wing under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and subsequent massacres of tens of thousands of CCP members resulted in a split and a prolonged civil war between the CCP and KMT. During the next ten years of guerrilla warfare, Mao Zedong rose to become the most influential figure in the CCP and the party established a strong base among the rural peasantry with its land reform policies. Support for the CCP continued to grow throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the CCP emerged triumphant in the communist revolution against the Nationalist government. The CCP established the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 and the remnants of the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan shortly after. Mao Zedong continued to be the most influential member of the CCP until his death in 1976. Under Mao, the party completed its land reform program, launched a series of five-year plans, and eventually split with the Soviet Union. Although Mao attempted to purge the party of capitalist and reactionary elements during the Cultural Revolution, after his death, these policies were only briefly continued by the Gang of Four before a less radical faction seized control. During the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping directed the CCP away from Maoist orthodoxy and towards a policy of economic liberalization. Since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CCP has focused on maintaining its relations with the ruling parties of the remaining communist states. The CCP has also established relations with several non-communist parties, including dominant nationalist parties of many developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as social democratic parties in Europe. As a Marxist–Leninist party, the Chinese Communist Party is organized based on democratic centralism, a principle that entails open policy discussion on the condition of unity among party members in upholding the agreed-upon decision. The highest body of the CCP is the National Congress, convened every fifth year. When the National Congress is not in session, the Central Committee is the highest body, but since that body usually only meets once a year, most duties and responsibilities are vested in the Politburo and its Standing Committee. Members of the latter are seen as the top leadership of the party and the state. Today the party's leader holds the offices of general secretary (responsible for civilian party duties, also the top rank official), chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) (responsible for military affairs), and president of China (a largely ceremonial position). Because of these posts, the party leader is seen as the country's de facto "paramount leader". The current leader is Xi Jinping, who was elected at the 1st Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee held on 15 November 2012 and has been reelected twice, on 25 October 2017 by the 19th Central Committee and on 10 October 2022 by the 20th Central Committee.

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• Chinese Communist Party - Wikipedia

  The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP won the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang and proclaimed the establishment of the PRC under the chairmanship of Mao Zedong in October 1949. The CCP has since governed China and has had sole control over the country's armed forces and law enforcement. As of 2024( the CCP has more than 100 million [...] As a Marxist–Leninist party, the Chinese Communist Party is organized based on democratic centralism, a principle that entails open policy discussion on the condition of unity among party members in upholding the agreed-upon decision. The highest body of the CCP is the National Congress, convened every fifth year. When the National Congress is not in session, the Central Committee is the highest body, but since that body usually only meets once a year, most duties and responsibilities are [...] The CCP was founded on 1 July 1921 with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International, according to the party's official account of its history. However, party documents suggest that the party's actual founding date was 23 July 1921, the first day of the 1st National Congress of the CCP. The founding National Congress of the CCP was held 23–31 July 1921.[better source needed] With only 50 members in the

• The Chinese Communist Party | Council on Foreign Relations

  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the founding and ruling political party of modern China, officially known as the People’s Republic of China. The CCP has maintained a political monopoly since Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic in 1949, and it has overseen the country’s rapid economic growth and rise as a global power. More From Our Experts Michael Froman China, the United States, and a Critical Chokepoint on Minerals Michael Werz [...] The CCP has had a monopoly on power since the Mao Zedong–led party defeated nationalist rivals and founded the People’s Republic in 1949. It has more than ninety million members. Since 2012, leader Xi Jinping has consolidated control over the party, restored its central role in society, and asserted China’s global power. He will likely get a third term during the party congress in 2022. [...] Foreign Affairs CFR Education Newsletters Related Sites + Council of Councils + Think Global Health The Chinese Communist Party Backgrounder # The Chinese Communist Party Under the command of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party faces a host of domestic and international challenges as it aims to bolster China’s great-power status. Written By Lindsay Maizland and Eleanor Albert Updated Last updated October 6, 2022 2:30 pm (EST) Summary

• China Primer: China's Political System | Library of Congress

  The PRC is a Leninist "party-state." The Communist Party of China (CPC), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is China's dominant political institution. It operates a powerful and expansive bureaucracy and tasks itself with "exercis[ing] overall leadership over all areas of endeavor in every part of the country." , plus the People's Armed Police (PAP) and the People's Militia. They all formally and explicitly serve the Party, not the country.) Xi also has served since 2013 as PRC [...] The People's Republic of China (PRC or China) is the only Communist Party-led state among either the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council or the members of the G-20 grouping of major economies. As Congress has intensified its focus on China in the context of U.S.-China strategic competition, Members have increasingly sought to legislate and conduct oversight on matters that require an understanding of the PRC political system. Select features of that system are [...] The CPC established the PRC on October 1, 1949. Today, the CPC's 99 million-plus members constitute nearly 7% of China's population. All members completed an application and vetting process to join. The Party's apex institution is the Central Committee, led by the General Secretary and including an all-male and all Han-ethnicity 24-person Political Bureau (Politburo) and a more elite, all-male and all-Han 7-person Politburo Standing Committee. The latter is China's top decisionmaking body. (

• The Chinese Revolution of 1949 - Office of the Historian

  The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai, originally existed as a study group working within the confines of the First United Front with the Nationalist Party. Chinese Communists joined with the Nationalist Army in the Northern Expedition of 1926–27 to rid the nation of the warlords that prevented the formation of a strong central government. This collaboration lasted until the “White Terror” of 1927, when the Nationalists turned on the Communists, killing them or purging them [...] On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s. The creation of the PRC also completed the long process of governmental upheaval in China begun by

• Reconsidering the History of the Chinese Communist Party

  Founded in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party has ruled the country since the Communist takeover in 1949, moving between harder and softer forms of authoritarianism. Today, in many ways, Chinese people live in the harshest climate since Mao’s death, as President Xi Jinping has cracked down on dissent, forced more than a million Uyghur people and other Muslim minorities into concentration camps in western China, and stripped Hong Kong of its autonomy. In a new book, “From Rebel to Ruler: One [...] I think one of the strengths of the Communist Party when it has been functioning well is that it’s been a strong, unified, and coherent organization. That is certainly what Xi Jinping sees as a core element to drive forward his agenda and his policies, and that plays out through a number of ways. One, of course, is his control over key appointments and making sure those in important leadership positions are faithful to the current leadership. It is also underpinned by the coherent narrative [...] I recently spoke by phone with Saich, who is also the director of the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed the C.C.P.’s complicated relationship to Marxism, why Xi Jinping embarked on a more authoritarian path for his country, and what the U.S.-China relationship may look like going forward.

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang, and in 1949 Mao proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Since then, the CCP has governed China with eight smaller parties within its United Front and has sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Each successive leader of the CCP has added their own theories to the party's constitution, which outlines the ideological beliefs of the party, collectively referred to as socialism with Chinese characteristics. As of 2022, the CCP has more than 96 million members, making it the second largest political party by party membership in the world after India's Bharatiya Janata Party. The Chinese public generally refers to the CCP as simply "the Party". In 1921, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao led the founding of the CCP with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International. For the first six years of its history, the CCP aligned itself with the Kuomintang (KMT) as the organized left wing of the larger nationalist movement. However, when the right wing of the KMT, led by Chiang Kai-shek, turned on the CCP and massacred tens of thousands of the party's members, the two parties split and began a prolonged civil war. During the next ten years of guerrilla warfare, Mao Zedong rose to become the most influential figure in the CCP, and the party established a strong base among the rural peasantry with its land reform policies. Support for the CCP continued to grow throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War, and after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the CCP emerged triumphant in the communist revolution against the KMT government. After the retreat of KMT to Taiwan the CCP established the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949. Mao Zedong continued to be the most influential member of the CCP until his death in 1976, although he periodically withdrew from public leadership as his health declined. Under Mao, the party completed its land reform program, launched a series of five-year plans, and eventually split with the Soviet Union. Although Mao attempted to purge the party of capitalist and reactionary elements during the Cultural Revolution, after his death, these policies were only briefly continued by the Gang of Four before a less radical faction seized control. During the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping directed the CCP away from Maoist orthodoxy and towards a policy of economic liberalization. The official explanation for these reforms was that China is still in the primary stage of socialism, a developmental stage similar to the capitalist mode of production. Since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CCP has emphasized its relations with the ruling parties of the remaining socialist states and continues to participate in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties each year. The CCP has also established relations with several non-communist parties, including dominant nationalist parties of many developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and social democratic parties of Europe. The Chinese Communist Party is organized on the basis of democratic centralism, a principle that entails open discussion of policy on the condition of unity among party members in upholding the agreed-upon decision. The highest body of the CCP is the National Congress, convened every fifth year. When the National Congress is not in session, the Central Committee is the highest body, but since that body usually only meets once a year, most duties and responsibilities are vested in the Politburo and its Standing Committee. Members of the latter are seen as the top leadership of the party and the state. Today the party's leader holds the offices of general secretary (responsible for civilian party duties), Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) (responsible for military affairs), and State President (a largely ceremonial position). Because of these posts, the party leader is seen as the country's paramount leader. The current leader is Xi Jinping, who was elected at the 18th National Congress held on 8–15 November 2012 and retained his position at the 19th National Congress held on 18–24 October 2017 and the 20th National Congress held on 16–22 October 2022.