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Organizational Chart of the Chinese Communist Party Central
Leading Bodies (source: xinhua.net)
Zhongnanhai -
Headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party
Zhongnanhai, Beijing - Headquarters
of CPC and Chinese Government Wall Banner on the left-hand side: "Long
Live the Great Chinese Communist Party!" Wall Banner on the right-hand
side: "Long Live the Invincible Mao Zedong
Thought!"
Brief Introduction of the Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of
China (CPC) was founded on July 1, 1921 in Shanghai,
China. After 28 years of struggle, the CPC finally won
victory of "new-democratic revolution" and founded the
People's Republic of China in 1949. The CPC is the
ruling party of mainland China (P.R. China).
The Communist Party of China is founded mainly on
ideology and politics. The CPC derives its ideas and
policies from the people's concentrated will and then
turns that will into State laws and decisions which are
passed by the National People's Congress of China
through the State's legal procedures. Theoretically, CPC
does not take the place of the government in the State's
leadership system. The Party conducts its activities
within the framework of the Constitution of the People's
Republic of China and the law and has no right to
transcend the Constitution and the law. All Party
members, like all citizens in the country, are equal
before the law.
The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee
of the Communist Party of China, held in December 1978,
decided to shift the focus of the Party's work to
socialist modernization and set a policy of reform and
opening up to the outside world.
Any Chinese who has reached the age of 18, accepts the
Party's Program and Constitution and is willing to join
and work actively in one of the Party organizations,
carry out the Party's decisions and pay membership dues
regularly, may apply for membership of the CPC. Its
membership increased from 70 in 1921 to over 66 million
in 2002.
The highest leading body of the Party is the National
Congress and the Central Committee elected by it. The
National Congress of the Party is held once every five
years and convened by the Central Committee.
Renmin Ribao (People's
Daily),the organ newspaper of the CPC Central
Committee with circulation of 2.8 million in 2011 (2.3 million in Dec. 1999) Editor in Chief: Mr.
Cai Mingzhao (2012); Director:
Mr. Zhang Yannong (2012).
Qiu Shi (Seeking
Truth), the CPC's theoretical publication. The
theoretical magazine used to be named Hong Qi (Red
Flag).
Party Central Academy
(Party School of Central Committee of CPC) website in Chinese
(President: Chen Xi )
The CCP's 18th National Congress Leadership
Political Bureau
of 18th National Congress:
Members of
Standing Committee of Political Bureau:
Xi Jinping,
Li Keqiang,
Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng
Members of
Political Bureau (alphabetically listed)
The Secretariat of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC
(They were
nominated by the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC
Central Committee and approved at the first plenary session of the 18th CPC
Central Committee.) Members:
Liu Yunshan, Liu Qibao, Zhao Leji, Li
Zhanshu, Du Qinglin, Zhao Hongzhu, Yang Jing (Mongolian).
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This picture shows the largest Chinese
Communist Party Flag ever made
(Size 960 Square Meters)
Location: Museum of "Without the Communist Party there wouldn't be New China", Tangshang Village, Xiayunling
Township, Fangshan District, Beijing (click for enlargement of this picture)
Celebrating
90th Anniversary of Funding of Chinese Communist Party (click
for full story)
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Official coverage of Chinese
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Meet China's new
provincial party chiefs
(full story)
CPC Central
Committee key plenum opens
Oct. 9, 2007 The Seventh Plenary Session of the 16th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in
Beijing on Tuesday morning.
China's Communist
cadres learn humility the hard way
Aug. 8, 2007 - Wearing bamboo hats
and drab grey uniforms with rice bags slung across their shoulders, a
group of men and women trudge along a narrow mountain path under the
scorching sun, their clothes soaked in sweat.It looks like a scene from
China's wartime past in the first half of last century or a re-enactment
for a film. But it is in fact the Communist Party of China's (CPC)
latest team-building and motivational course for senior government
officials. It also has the wider purpose of discouraging corruption and
arrogance before they start.(Click
the news title for full report.)
2.86 mln Communist Party
members work in China's private sector
Source: Xinhua July 12, 2007 - About 2.86 million members of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) were working for private enterprises
by the end of 2006, according to the Organization Department of the
CPC Central Committee.
There were also 810,000 CPC members among the ranks of the
self-employed, said a document released by the department here
Thursday.
There were a total of 178,000 CPC organs in private firms in 2006, a
rise of 79.8 percent over 2002, and 94.2 percent of them had at
least three Party members.
At its 16th National Congress held in Beijing in 2002, the CPC took a
significant step forward by including in its constitution provisions
relating to party organs in the private sector.
Early this year the organization department said that about 330,000
Party workers have been sent to private enterprises to help organize
party organs and recruit members.
The CPC now has 70 million members.
Wal-Mart China sees second Communist Party branch
Xinhua, Aug. 25, 2006 - A second outlet of the world's largest
retailer, Wal-Mart, has seen the establishment of a branch of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's
Liaoning Province. (Click
for full report)
Local Party committees in 14 provinces
reshuffled
Xinhua News - Jan. 16,
2007 - Fourteen of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities on the Chinese mainland had reshuffled local Party
committees following internal elections for Party officials by last
December. The number of deputy Party chiefs in the local Party
committees was cut by 38 to 33, a display of the Party's determination
to improve efficiency and strengthen ruling capacity, according to the
Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of China (CPC). Positions in the standing committees of local Party
committees were also reduced by eight to 186, with the average age of
members down by half a year to 52.7-years-old. There are now 56 members
aged below 50 and 21 members aged around 45 in the standing committees
of local Party committees, and at least one woman cadre in most of the
14 provincial Party committees. In contrast to the general efforts to
streamline Party organizations, posts in the Party's discipline
inspection commissions were increased by 24.6 percent. "It will help
discipline inspection sectors to perform their duties better," said an
official with the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
Local Party leadership elections, which occur every five years, have
been completed at the provincial, municipal, county and township levels,
in Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Henan, Anhui, Shanxi,
Jiangsu, Hunan, Hebei, Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian and Jiangxi. The election
of Party officials in other regions and jurisdictions will be completed
by the middle of this year.
CPC sets date
for Central Committee plenum Xinhuanet, Sep. 29, 2005 - The fifth
plenary session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China (CPC) will be held in Beijing from Oct. 8 to 11. The decision was
made by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
at a meeting held here on Thursday. (click
for full report)
By the
end of 2011, the total members of CPC reached 82.602 million, a
2.9% (2.233 million) increase over 2010. There were 4.027 million CPC's
branches in all levels of the Party system by the end of 2011, a 3.5%
(135,000) increase over 2010.
What Are Members Composed
of?
Member
Number
%
Female Members
19.25 million
23.3
From Ethnic groups
5.562
million
6.7
Above college degree
31.913
million
38.6
Under 35 years old
20.622
million
25
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What
are Party Members Doing?
Careers
Members
Industrial Workers
7.047million
Workers in agriculture, animal
husbandry and fishing
24.834
million
Government/CPC Employees
6.999
million
Management & Professionals
19.25
million
Students
2.778
million
Retirees
15.182
million
Others
6.513
million
*Communist Party of China 2011 information. Source; Xinhua
By the end of 2010, the
total members of CPC reached 80.269 million, a 2.27 million increase
over the last year (excluding those dead during this period). Among them
worker members are 7 million and farmer members are 24 million.
(source: CPC
Organization Dept. June 2011)
By the end of 2009,
Chinese
Communist Party has 77.995 million members, a 2.065 million increase
over the last year.
Among these members,
females
(16.94 million) share 21.7% of total CPC members; Ethnic minority
members (5.13 millions) share 6.6%. 35.7% of CPC members (27.87 million)
have college or higher education background. Total number of CPC
branches (grass-roots branches are called zhi'bu in Chinese) 3.374
million.
CPC Members' age
distribution
Age
Members
%
of Total
Below 35
18.47 million
23.7%
36-45
16.88
million
21.6%
46-59
22.84
million
29.3%
Over 60
19.81
million
25.4%
CPC Members' career
distribution
Careers
Members
Industrial Workers
6.94million
Workers in agriculture, animal
husbandry and fishing
24.02
million
Government/CPC Employees
6.6
million
Management & Professionals
17.73
million
Students
2.27
million
Retirees
14.53
million
Others
5.92
million
(Source: People's Daily June 28, 2010,
translated by CT)
By the
end of 2007, Chinese Communist Party has 74.153 million members.
Among these members,
female
shares 20.4%, and 32.4% members have college or higher education, and 23.7%
members are below 35 years old. (July 1, 2009)
Total
Number of Branches: Over 3.3 millions (grass-roots branches)
2005 Statistics:
Total members of CPC: 70.80
million. Among those members, 19.2% were female; 23% were
below 35 years old. 29% had received college education.
2002 Statistics:
Total members
of CPC: 66.36 million. Among those members: 16.6% (10.29
million) are female; 6.1% (3.79 million) are minority people; 23.1% of them
(14.28 million) are under 35 years old; 4.6% of them (2.86 million) are under
25 years old; 47.2% (29.19 million) of them are high-school graduates (among
them, 17.8% have college or university degrees; 0.5% (310,000) with graduate
degrees). In 1998 alone, 2.26 million people are newly enrolled into the
Party.
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future - As China's Communist Party
celebrates its founding, it is stuck in an
internal debate on whether to admit that
values such as human rights are universal or
merely Western. Aren't all good ideas
universal? (click
for details on Christian Science Monitor)
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Wearing matching baseball hats for easy
identification, Chinese tour groups are an
increasingly common sight. By Michael
Bristow, BBC News (click
for full report)
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The epic about the Chinese Communist Party
stars China's most famous actors. Theaters
have cleared room for it and companies are
pushing employees to see it. (click
for details on Los Angeles Times)
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The 'red song' campaign began in Chongqing,
launched by an ambitious party figure. Some
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China's party princelings fight for a chance
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It's not if, but when,
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for details on the Sydney Morning Herald)
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China's next leader? A look
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vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, a key post seen as the
penultimate step on the ladder to China's top job in 2013.
(Click for details on the Christian Science
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