Communist Party of the People's Republic of China

Communist Party of China 中国共产党 Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Standing Committee	Xi Jinping Li Keqiang Zhang Dejiang Yu Zhengsheng Liu Yunshan Wang Qishan Zhang Gaoli
Founded	23 July 1921; 96 years ago (1921-07-23)
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
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
Website
cpc.people.com.cn
Politics of People's Republic of China

Communist Party of China
"Communist Party of China" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Wade–Giles Chung-kuo Kung-ch'an-tang IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋkwǒ kʊ̂ŋʈʂʰàntàŋ]
Abbreviated name
Chinese	中共
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōng Gòng
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōng Gòng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོ་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང
Transcriptions Wylie krung go gung khran tang
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيىسى
Transcriptions 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 . The Communist Party of China is the sole governing party of China; although it coexists alongside eight other legal parties that make up the United Front, these parties hold no real power or independence from the CPC. It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. the communist 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. 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).