Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China 中国共产党
Abbreviation	CPC
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Founded	23 July, 1921
Newspaper	People's Daily
Think tank	Central Policy Research Office
Youth wing	Communist Youth League of China Young Pioneers of China
Website
http://cpc.people.com.cn/

The Communist Party of China (CPC) (in Western media it is typically written as CCP, or Chinese Communist Party) is the vanguard 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.

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. 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.