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Communist Party of China
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Chinese Communist Party was initially launched in October 1997.
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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!"
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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.
The General Information
- Date of Establishment: July 1,
1921
- Place of Establishment:
Shanghai, China
- General Secretary of the Central
Committee:
Hu Jintao
(Elected in 16th and Re-elected in 17th Party National Congress)
CPC Chairman Hu
Jintao
Members of
Standing Committee of Political Bureau:
Hu Jintao,
Wu Bangguo,
Wen Jiabao,
Jia
Qinglin,
Li Changchun,
Xijinping,
Li Keqiang,
He Guoqiang,
Zhou Yongkang.
Members of
Political Bureau
(alphabetically listed):
Bo Xilai,
Guo Boxiong,
He Guoqiang,
Hu
Jintao,
Hui Liangyu,
Jia Qinglin,
Li Changchun,
Li Keqiang, Li Yuanchao,
Liu Qi,
Liu Yandong (female),
Liu Yunshan,
Wang Gang,
Wang Lequan,
Wang Qishan, Wang Yang,
Wang Zhaoguo,
Wen Jiabao,
Wu Bangguo,
Xi Jinping,
Xu Caihou,
Yu Zhengsheng, Zhang Dejiang, Zhang Gaoli,
Zhou Yongkang.
- Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection of the CPC:
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- Total Members of Central Committee:
204 (Full
List)
- Total Alternate Members of Central
Committee: 167 (Full
List)
- Total Members of Central Disciplinary
Committee: 127 (Full
List)
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Total Members of CPC
in 2007:
73.36 million (Among
these members 71.8% under 35 years old, 31.9% are female members; 7.1%
Ethnic Minorities, (Data collected in Oct. 2007)
- The Increase of Total
Numbers of CPC
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Year |
Total
Number of CPC Members |
Remarks |
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1997 |
60.417
million |
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1998 |
61.877
million |
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1999 |
63.221
million |
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2000 |
64.517
million |
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2001 |
65.749
million |
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2002 |
66.355
million |
(June) |
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2005 |
70.80 million |
(Dec.) |
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2007 |
73.36 million |
(Oct.) |
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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Session |
Time |
Venue |
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1st |
Jul.
1-5, 1921 |
Shanghai |
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2nd |
Jul. 16-23, 1922 |
Shanghai |
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3rd |
Jun. 10-20,
1923 |
Guangzhou |
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4th |
Jan. 11-22, 1925 |
Shanghai |
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5th |
Apr. 27, 1927 |
Wuhan |
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6th |
Jun. 18-Jul. 11, 1928 |
Moscow, USSR |
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7th |
Apr. 23-Jun. 11, 1945 |
Beijing |
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8th |
Sept. 15-27, 1956 |
Beijing |
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9th |
Apr. 1-24, 1969 |
Beijing |
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10th |
Aug. 24-28,
1973 |
Beijing |
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11th |
Aug. 12-18, 1977 |
Beijing |
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12th |
Sept. 1-11,
1982 |
Beijing |
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13th |
Oct. 25-Nov. 1,
1987 |
Beijing |
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14th |
Oct.12-18, 1992 |
Beijing |
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15th |
Sept.12-19, 1997 |
Beijing |
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16th |
Nov. 7-Nov.
15, 2002 |
Beijing |
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17th |
Oct. 15 -21, 2007 |
Beijing |
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Members
of Standing Committee of Political Bureau:
Hu Jintao,
Wu Bangguo,
Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin,
Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju,
Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun, Luo Gan.
Members
of Political Bureau:
Wang Lequan,
Wang Zhaoguo,
Hui Liangyu,
Liu Qi, Liu
Yunshan, Li Changchun,
Wu Yi,
Wu Bangguo,
Wu Guanzheng,
Zhang Lichang, Zhang Dejiang,
Chen
Liangyu (detained
in jail and waits for trial Aug. 2, 2007),
Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang,
Hu Jintao, Yu
Zhengsheng, He
Guoqiang,
Jia Qinglin,
Guo Boxiong,
Huang Ju (dead
in June 2007), Cao Gangchuan,
Zeng Qinghong,
Zeng Peiyan, Wen
Jiabao
Alternate Members of Political Bureau: Wang Gang
Members
of the Secretariat of the Central Committee: Zeng Qinghong, Liu
Yunshan, Zhou Yongkang, He Guoqiang, Wang Gang, Xu Caihou, He Yong.
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Chairman of Central Military Commission:
Hu Jintao
( Hu Jintao succeeded
Jiang Zemin
on
Sep. 19, 2004 at the fourth plenum of 16th Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China; The
Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China is the
highest state military organ with the responsibility of commanding the
entire armed forces in the country. Led by a chairman and consisting of
vice chairmen and members, the Commission is elected for a term of five
years and can stand for reelection.)
- Vice
Chairmen of Central Military Commission: Guo Boxiong, Cao Gangchuan,
Xu Caihou
- Members
of Central Military Commission:
Liang Guanglie,
Li Jinai,
Liao Xilong,
Chen Bingde, Qiao Qingchen, Zhang Dingfa, Jing Zhiyuan
- Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC: Secretary:
Wu Guanzheng; Deputy Secretaries: He Yong, Xia Zanzhong, Li
zhilun, Zhang Shutian, Liu Xirong, Zhang Huixin, Liu Fengyan
- Total
Members of Central Committee: 198
- Total
Alternate Members of Central Committee: 158
- Total
Members of Central Disciplinary Committee:
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Early Years of the Chinese Communist Party
Looks at the early years of the Communist Party in China and
profiles the efforts of pioneer organizers Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu.
Historical Documents from the Communist Party of
China (CPC)
World Tibet Network News: Hu Jintao
Britannica: Zhou Enlai
- profile
of the leading figure in the Chinese Communist Party and the premier and
foreign minister of the People's Republic of China.
Columbia Encyclopedia: Communist Party, in
China
Statement of The Central Committee of The Chinese Communist
Party, February 1, 1947 - from the Modern History
Sourcebook
Modern China: The Chinese
Communist Party
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Important Note:
This information web page of
Chinese Communist Party was initially launched in October 1997. All the
information published on this page is collected from official and unofficial
publications. This web page is for your informational purpose only, the
content of this page do not necessarily reflects the views of
Chinatoday.com
or
any of its affiliates. (Last update: Sep. 19, 2007).
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2007
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waiting for trial
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members in five years
Party leaders to
be more media savvy, July 17, 2007
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.
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Senior CPC
politician Bo Yibo dies
Xinhua
News, Jan.16, 2007 - A senior leader of the Communist Party of China, Bo
Yibo, died of old age at a Beijing hospital Monday evening. China's
Xinhua news agency reports he died at 99. During his long political
career, Bo Yibo served as vice premier and chairman of the State
Economic Commission. A veteran of the Long March - a strategic
relocation of the Red Army - Bo rose to become a finance minister and
held a series of top economic posts in China. During the Cultural
Revolution, he was purged and imprisoned for more than 10 years, but
later rehabilitated. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Bo was considered one
of the "Eight Immortals" -- elderly revolutionaries. |
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