Communist Party of China
中国共产党 Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng |
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General Secretary | Xi Jinping |
Standing Committee | |
Founded | 1 July 1921 |
Headquarters | Zhongnanhai, Xicheng District, Beijing |
Newspaper | People's Daily |
Youth wing | Communist Youth League |
Popular front | United Front |
Armed wing | People's Liberation Army |
Membership (2016) | 88.76 million |
Ideology |
Communism Socialism with Chinese characteristics Maoism Marxism-Leninism |
International affiliation | International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties and International Communist Seminar |
Slogan | Serve the People |
Anthem | The Internationale |
National People's Congress |
2,157 / 2,987
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Party flag | |
Website | |
english.cpc.people.com.cn | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng | ||||||||
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Chinese | 中共 | ||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōng Gòng | ||||||||
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Tibetan | ཀྲུང་གོ་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང | ||||||||
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Uyghur |
جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيىسى
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng |
IPA | [ʈʂʊ́ŋkwǒ kʊ̂ŋʈʂʰàntàŋ] |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōng Gòng |
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Wylie | krung go gung khran tang |
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Latin Yëziqi | Junggo Kommunistik Partiyisi |
Yengi Yeziⱪ | Junggo Kommunistik Partiyisi |
Siril Yëziqi | Җуңго Коммунистик Партийиcи |
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The CPC is the sole governing party of China, although it coexists alongside eight other legal parties that comprise the United Front; these parties, however, hold no real power or independence from the CPC. It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. The party grew quickly, and by 1949 the CPC had driven the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) government from mainland China after the Chinese Civil War, thus leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The CPC is currently the world's second largest political party with a membership of 88.76 million as of 2016 (while the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party appears to have remained the largest with a membership of 110 million as of the previous year, 2015). It also controls the world's largest armed force, the People's Liberation Army.
The CPC is, officially, organized on the basis of democratic centralism, a principle conceived by Russian Marxist theoretician Vladimir Lenin which entails democratic and open discussion on policy on the condition of unity in upholding the agreed upon policies. The highest body of the CPC 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 the body meets normally only once a year, most duties and responsibilities are vested in the Politburo and its Standing Committee. 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). Through these posts the party leader is the country's paramount leader. The current party leader is Xi Jinping, elected at the 18th National Congress (held in 2012).