Chinese Communist Party

Communist Party of China 中国共产党 Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng
Abbreviation	CCP (common) CPC (official)
General Secretary	Xi Jinping
Standing Committee	Xi Jinping Li Qiang Zhao Leji Wang Huning Cai Qi Ding Xuexiang Li Xi
Founders	Chen Duxiu Li Dazhao ... and others 1st National Congress representatives: Henk Sneevliet Vladimir Neumann [de; zh] Li Da Li Hanjun Zhang Guotao Liu Renjing [zh] Mao Zedong He Shuheng Dong Biwu Chen Tanqiu Wang Jinmei Deng Enming Chen Gongbo Zhou Fohai Bao Huiseng [zh]
Founded	23 July 1921; 103 years ago (1921-07-23) (1st National Congress)[note 1] Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, 106 Rue Wantz, Shanghai French Concession
Headquarters	Zhongnanhai, Xicheng District, Beijing
Newspaper	People's Daily
Youth wing	Communist Youth League of China
Children's wing	Young Pioneers of China
Armed wing	People's Liberation Army People's Armed Police Militia of China
Research office	Central Policy Research Office
Membership (2023)	99,185,000[2]
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics Communism Marxism–Leninism Mao Zedong Thought Deng Xiaoping Theory Three Represents Scientific Outlook on Development Xi Jinping Thought
International affiliation	IMCWP
Colours	Red
Slogan	"Serve the People"[note 2]
National People's Congress (13th)	2,090 / 2,980
NPC Standing Committee (14th)	117 / 175
Party flag
Website
12371.cn
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Communist Party of China
"Communist Party of China" in simplified (top) and traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中国共产党
Traditional Chinese	中國共產黨
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Bopomofo ㄓㄨㄥ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄍㄨㄥˋ ㄔㄢˇ ㄉㄤˇ Wade–Giles Chung1-kuo2 Kung4-ch'an3-tang3 Tongyong Pinyin Jhongguó Gòng-chǎn-dǎng IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋ.kwǒ kʊ̂ŋ.ʈʂʰàn.tàŋ] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jūng-gwok Guhng-cháan-dóng Jyutping zung1 gwok3 gung6 caan2 dong2 IPA [tsʊŋ˥ kʷɔk̚˧ kʊŋ˨ tsʰan˧˥ tɔŋ˧˥] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Tiong-kok Kiōng-sán-tóng
Abbreviation
Chinese	中共
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōnggòng
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōnggòng Bopomofo ㄓㄨㄥ ㄍㄨㄥˋ Wade–Giles Chung1-kung4 IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋ.kʊ̂ŋ] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jūng-guhng Jyutping zung1 gung6 IPA [tsʊŋ˥.kʊŋ˨] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Tiong-kiōng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོ་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང
Transcriptions Wylie Krung go gung khran tang THL Trung go gung trän tang Tibetan Pinyin Zhung ko kung chän dang
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghgoz Gungcanjdangj
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дундад улсын (Хятадын) Эв хамт (Kоммунист) Нам
Mongolian script	ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ (ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ) ᠡᠪ ᠬᠠᠮᠲᠤ (ᠺᠣᠮᠮᠤᠶᠢᠨᠢᠰᠲ) ᠨᠠᠮ
Transcriptions SASM/GNC Dumdad ulcyn (Khyatadyn) Av khamt (Kommunist) Нam
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيىسى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Junggo Kommunistik Partiyisi Yengi Yeziⱪ Junggo Kommunistik Partiyisi Siril Yëziqi Җуңго Коммунистик Партийиcи
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ‍‍ᡳ (ᠵᡠᠨᡤᠣ ‍‍ᡳ) ᡤᡠᠩᡮᠠᠨ ᡥᠣᡴᡳ
Romanization	Dulimbai gurun-i (Jungg'o-i) Gungcan Hoki

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP),^[3] officially the Communist Party of China (CPC),^[4] is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang. In 1949, Mao proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Since then, the CCP has governed China and has had sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Successive leaders of the CCP have added their own theories to the party's constitution, which outlines the party's ideology, collectively referred to as socialism with Chinese characteristics. As of 2024^[update], the CCP has more than 99 million members, making it the second largest political party by membership in the world after India's Bharatiya Janata Party.

In 1921, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao led the founding of the CCP with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist International. For the first six years, the CCP aligned itself with the Kuomintang (KMT) as the organized left wing of the larger nationalist movement. However, when the right wing of the KMT, led by Chiang Kai-shek, turned on the CCP and massacred tens of thousands of the party's members, the two parties split and began a prolonged civil war. During the next ten years of guerrilla warfare, Mao Zedong rose to become the most influential figure in the CCP, and the party established a strong base among the rural peasantry with its land reform policies. Support for the CCP continued to grow throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War, and after the Japanese surrender in 1945, the CCP emerged triumphant in the communist revolution against the Nationalist government. After the KMT's retreat to Taiwan, the CCP established the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949.

Mao Zedong continued to be the most influential member of the CCP until his death in 1976, although he periodically withdrew from public leadership as his health deteriorated. Under Mao, the party completed its land reform program, launched a series of five-year plans, and eventually split with the Soviet Union. Although Mao attempted to purge the party of capitalist and reactionary elements during the Cultural Revolution, after his death, these policies were only briefly continued by the Gang of Four before a less radical faction seized control. During the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping directed the CCP away from Maoist orthodoxy and towards a policy of economic liberalization. The official explanation for these reforms was that China was still in the primary stage of socialism, a developmental stage similar to the capitalist mode of production. Since the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CCP has focused on maintaining its relations with the ruling parties of the remaining socialist states and continues to participate in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties each year. The CCP has also established relations with several non-communist parties, including dominant nationalist parties of many developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as social democratic parties in Europe.

The Chinese Communist Party is organized based on democratic centralism, a principle that entails open policy discussion on the condition of unity among party members in upholding the agreed-upon decision. The highest body of the CCP 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 that body usually only meets once a year, most duties and responsibilities are vested in the Politburo and its Standing Committee. Members of the latter are seen as the top leadership of the party and the state.^[5] Today 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). Because of these posts, the party leader is seen as the country's paramount leader. The current leader is Xi Jinping, who was elected at the 1st Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee held on 15 November 2012 and has been reelected twice, on 25 October 2017 by the 19th Central Committee and on 10 October 2022 by the 20th Central Committee.

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