Central Party School

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Party School of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of China
中国共产党中央委员会党校
Central Party School Seal.png
Motto实事求是 (Shí shì qiú shì)
Motto in English
"Seek truth from facts"
TypeHigher education institution
Ministerial level agency
Established1933;92 years ago (1933)
Parent institution
 Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
President Chen Xi
Vice-presidentXie Chuntao (executive)
Students1,300
Address
100 Dayouzhuang Street
,
Haidian District, Beijing
,
China

40°0′21″N116°16′21″E / 40.00583°N 116.27250°E / 40.00583; 116.27250
CampusUrban
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Website www.ccps.gov.cn OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 中共中央党校
Traditional Chinese 中共中央黨校
Literal meaningChinese-Communist Central Party School
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Dǎngxiào
Central Party School
The Campus of the Central Party School, 2022 Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (20220802121621).jpg
The Campus of the Central Party School, 2022

The CentralParty School is a higher education institution that trains Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. It is located in Haidian, Beijing, close to Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace.

Contents

The current president is Chen Xi, a former member of the CCP Politburo.

History

The school was established as the CCP Central Committee's Marx School of Communism (simplified Chinese :中共中央马克思共产主义学校; traditional Chinese :中共中央馬克思共產主義學校; pinyin :Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Mǎkèsī Gòngchǎnzhǔyì Xuéxiào) in Ruijin, Jiangxi, in 1933. It folded when the Chinese Red Army left on the Long March and was revived once the CCP leadership had arrived and settled in Shaanxi, northwest China, in the winter of 1936. It was then renamed the Central Party School. The school was suspended in 1947 when the CCP retreated from Yan'an. It was re-opened in 1948 in a village in Pingshan County, Hebei, before being moved to Beijing after the CCP captured the city in 1949. [1]

In 1955, the school was re-organized so that it came directly under the jurisdiction of the CCP Central Committee. [2] The school was abolished in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution, before being restored in March 1977. [3]

In 2008, a group of researchers at the school issued a blueprint for political reform, including freedom of the press. [4] In November 2013, Liu Yunshan announced that the Central Party School would begin a training program on "General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important remarks." [5] : 21–22  Within a year, 2,300 cadres had completed the program. [5] : 22  The program was part of the effort to begin formalizing Xi Jinping Thought. [5] : 21–22 

The school is now officially referred to as the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China. [6]

The National Academy of Governance was merged into the Central Party School in March 2018 as part of the deepening the reform of the Party and state institutions. [7] The name of the academy was retained by the Central Party School as a one institution with two names arrangement. [8]

The Central Party School provided US$40 million to build and operate the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School, which opened in February 2022 in Tanzania. [9] [10] The school was jointly established with the support of the six ruling parties of Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. [11]

Functions

The Central Party School is responsible for training the cadres of the CCP. [12] [4] [13] It is the highest party school among a network of approximately 2,700 party schools. [1] It provides training courses in CCP ideology, governance, and social sciences, and also provides master's and doctoral degrees in the humanities and social sciences. It trains leading cadres at the provincial-ministerial level, department-bureau level, young and middle-aged cadres and ethnic minority cadres, leaders of top state-owned enterprises and centrally managed universities, CCP county secretaries, civil servants from Hong Kong and Macau, and to cadres who specialize in ideology, propaganda and education. [14]

The Party School holds seminars on ideological and political issues, and also employs professors which provide research and consulting services to the central CCP leadership. It also leads and guides the operations, staff and basic text material of the Party Schools at the provincial and county level. [14] The Central Party School publishes the Study Times , which provides an explanation of the relationships between the CCP Central Committee's directives and the underlying political theory and ideology. [15] [16]

Organization

The president of the school heads the Central Party School. From 1989 to 2017, the school was headed by the top-ranked member of the Secretariat, who is concurrently a member of the Politburo Standing Committee. The day-to-day affairs of the school are in practice managed by the executive vice president, who is generally regarded to have the same ranking as a cabinet minister.[ citation needed ]

Presidents

This section is an excerpt from President of the Central Party School § List of presidents.[ edit ]
NameName (Chinese)Tenure beginsTenure endsReferences
Ren Bishi 任弼时November 1931April 1933 [17]
Zhang Wentian 张闻天April 1933January 1934 [18]
Li Weihan 李维汉April 19331935 [19]
Dong Biwu 董必武Late 1935April 1937 [18]
Li Weihan 李维汉April 1937March 1938 [18]
Kang Sheng 康生March 1938October 1938 [18]
Chen Yun 陈云October 1938December 1941 [18]
Deng Fa 邓发December 1941March 1943 [18]
Mao Zedong 毛泽东March 1943March 1947 [18] [20]
Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇July 1948March 1953 [21] [22]
Kai Feng 凯丰March 1953November 1954[ citation needed ]
Li Zhuoran 李卓然November 1954April 1955[ citation needed ]
Yang Xianzhen 杨献珍April 1955February 1961[ citation needed ]
Wang Congwu 王从吾February 1961January 1963[ citation needed ]
Lin Feng 林枫January 1963January 1966[ citation needed ]
Hua Guofeng 华国锋March 1977April 1982[ citation needed ]
Wang Zhen 王震April 1982March 1987[ citation needed ]
Gao Yang 高扬March 1987March 1989[ citation needed ]
Qiao Shi 乔石March 1989February 1993[ citation needed ]
Hu Jintao 胡锦涛February 1993December 2002[ citation needed ]
Zeng Qinghong 曾庆红December 2002December 2007[ citation needed ]
Xi Jinping 习近平December 2007December 2012[ citation needed ]
Liu Yunshan 刘云山15 January 201325 October 2017 [23]
Chen Xi 曹立军25 October 2017Incumbent [24]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Tian, Gang; Tsai, Wen-Hsuan (January 1, 2021). "Ideological Education and Practical Training at a County Party School: Shaping Local Governance in Contemporary China". The China Journal . 85: 1–25. doi:10.1086/711562. ISSN   1324-9347. S2CID   230594890.
  3. ↑ Doyon, Jérôme; Keller, Franziska Barbara (November 2020). "Knowing the Wrong Cadre? Networks and Promotions in the Chinese Party-State". Political Studies . 68 (4): 1036–1053. doi:10.1177/0032321719888854. ISSN   0032-3217. S2CID   214083283. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
  4. 1 2 Buckley, Chris; Bradsher, Keith (July 4, 2021). "'Red Cradles' Nurture China's Next Generation of Communist Leaders". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 29, 2022. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
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  6. ↑ "Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China". Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
  7. ↑ "CPC releases plan on deepening reform of Party and state institutions". People's Daily . Archived from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  8. ↑ "中央党校（国家行政学院）举行2024年秋季学期第一批进修班毕业典礼--党建-中国共产党新闻网" [The Central Party School (National School of Administration) held the graduation ceremony for the first batch of advanced training classes in the fall semester of 2024]. People's Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved November 2, 2024.
  9. ↑ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (August 20, 2023). "In Tanzania, Beijing is running a training school for authoritarianism". Axios . Archived from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  10. ↑ Nyabiage, Jevans (February 26, 2022). "China opens party school in Africa to teach its model to continent's officials". South China Morning Post . Archived from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  11. ↑ Chan, Raphael (August 29, 2022). "Political Training Under the Belt and Road Initiative: A Look at the Chinese Communist Party's First Party School in Africa". Foreign Policy Research Institute . Archived from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  12. ↑ Liu, Alan P. L. (2009). "Rebirth and Secularization of the Central Party School in China". The China Journal . 62 (62): 105–125. doi:10.1086/tcj.62.20648116. S2CID   140813703. ProQuest   222740035.
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  14. 1 2 "Decoding Chinese Politics: Party Center". Asia Society . October 4, 2024. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
  15. ↑ Lau Chung-Ming; Shen Jianfa (2000). China Review. Chinese University Press. p. xxxvi. ISBN   9789622019454. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ Timothy R. Heath (May 23, 2016). China's New Governing Party Paradigm: Political Renewal and the Pursuit of National Rejuvenation. Routledge. p. 217. ISBN   978-1-317-16711-2. Archived from the original on March 3, 2021. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
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  24. ↑ "中组部长陈希兼任党校校长 习近平打破30年惯例". Radio Free Asia (in Chinese). November 11, 2017.
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