Communist Party of China

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Communist Party of China

中国共产党
AbbreviationCPC
General SecretaryXi Jinping
FoundersChen Duxiu
Li Dazhao
1st National Congress
Founded23 July, 1921
NewspaperPeople's Daily
Think tankCentral Policy Research Office
Youth wingCommunist Youth League of China
Young Pioneers of China
Membership (2022)96,710,000
Website
http://cpc.people.com.cn/

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the vanguard of both of the Chinese working class and of the Chinese nation. It is guided by its ideology which is a practical application of Marxism-Leninism to the specific conditions of China. Among these ideological developments is Socialism with Chinese characteristics which emphasizes the development of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people. The realization of communism is the highest ideal and ultimate goal of the Party. [1]

History

The Communist Party of China was founded on July 23, 1921, heavily influenced by the events of the May Fourth Movement and the October Revolution.[2] After many years of civil war in which the CPC achieved total victory in mainland China and most of the coastal islands, led the People's Liberation Army to defeat the National Army of the Republic of China, and forced the Republic of China into a military coup.

The government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan. Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China in Beijing in 1949, the only ruling party in the PRC leading the Workers' and Peasants' Alliance and the United Front on behalf of the working class and exercising the People's Democratic Dictatorship in mainland China since October 1949.

By 2021, the CPC had reached over 90 million members.[3]

Demographics

In 2020, the Communist Party of China is about 91,914,000 members large or about 6.57% of their population. In 2017, about 26.7% of members are women.[4] In 2015, roughly 30% are farmers, herdsmen or fishermen, 25% white collar workers, 18% retirees, 8% government employees.[5]

On July 2, 2001, Jiang Zemin allowed the possibility of membership to be extended to the Bourgeoisie.[6] This policy would result in, by 2017, a large amount of the CPC's upper ranks being filled with millionaires or even billionaires, and greatly decreased the amount of power the workers had in the PRC's political affairs.[7]

Controversies

Disputed English Nomenclature

The CPC is incorrectly referred to as "Chinese Communist Party" (CCP) in western media; despite the CPC declaring the "Communist Party of China" to be official English translation of their native name.

Structure

CPC members are recursively grouped into party branches; higher-level party branches regulates lower-level branches.[8] When a branch exceeds a manageable size; it gets managed by a higher-level branch of the parent branch.

For example, party (or grassroot) branches with between 50 and 100 members are grouped into General Party Branches. General Party Branches regulate grassroot branches.

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