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Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China
中国共产党
Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng
General Secretary Xi Jinping
Standing Committee
Founded 1 July 1921; 95 years ago (1921-07-01)
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
Party flag
Flag of the Chinese Communist Party.svg
Website
english.cpc.people.com.cn
Communist Party of China
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng
Abbreviated name
Chinese 中共
Hanyu Pinyin Zhōng Gòng
Tibetan name
Tibetan ཀྲུང་གོ་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང
Uyghur name
Uyghur
جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيىسى

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).


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