The Chinese Communist Party (CCP),officially the Communist Party of China (CPC),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 sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Each successive leader of the CCP has added their own theories to the party's constitution,which outlines the ideology of the party,collectively referred to as socialism with Chinese characteristics. As of 2023,the CCP has more than 98 million members,making it the second largest political party by membership in the world after India's Bharatiya Janata Party.
The politics of the People's Republic of China takes place in a framework of a unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Chinese political system is authoritarian. There are no freely elected national leaders,political opposition is suppressed,all religious activity is controlled by the CCP,dissent is not permitted,and civil rights are curtailed. Direct elections occur only at the local level,not the national level,with all candidate nominations controlled by the CCP.
The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC),officially the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,is a committee consisting of the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Historically it has been composed of five to eleven members,and currently has seven members. Its officially mandated purpose is to conduct policy discussions and make decisions on major issues when the Politburo,a larger decision-making body,is not in session. According to the party's constitution,the General Secretary of the Central Committee must also be a member of the Politburo Standing Committee.
Hu Jintao is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012,the president of China from 2003 to 2013,and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012. He was a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee,China's de facto top decision-making body,from 1992 to 2012. Hu was the fifth paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012.
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since 1989,the CCP general secretary has been the paramount leader of the PRC.
Paramount leader is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA),often holding the titles of CCP General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC). The head of state (president) or head of government (premier) are not necessarily paramount leader—under China's party-state system,CCP roles are politically more important than state titles.
The Shanghai clique,also referred to as the Shanghai gang,Jiang clique,or Jiang faction,refers to an informal group of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who rose to prominence under former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin while he served as the party chief and mayor of Shanghai.
Generations of Chinese leadership is a term historians use to characterize distinct periods of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and,by extension,successive changes in the ideology of the CCP. Historians have studied various periods in the development of the government of the People's Republic of China by reference to these "generations".
The People's Republic of China (PRC) became more influential economically in the 1990s and 2000s and was beginning to be widely recognized as an emerging superpower. In 2010,China became the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and became the largest economy since 2014 measured by GDP PPP surpassing the United States which previously held that position. At the same time,numerous social problems emerged and intensified. As CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin,Congress Chairman Li Peng and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji,gradually retired from their position of power,"fourth-generation" leaders,led by CCP General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao,faced with increasing social unrest,attempted to steer the country towards a new direction. From the path of focusing solely on economic development,Hu and Wen placed focus on creating an overall balance under the idea of the Scientific Outlook on Development to create a socialist harmonious society.
"China's peaceful rise",currently referred to as "China's peaceful development",was an official policy and political slogan in China under former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao which sought to assure the international community that China's growing political,economic,and military power would not pose a threat to international peace and security.
Li Keqiang was a Chinese economist and politician who served as the premier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023. He was also the second-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2012 to 2022. Li was a major part of the "fifth generation of Chinese leadership" along with Xi Jinping,the CCP general secretary.
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been serving as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC),and thus as the paramount leader of China,since 2012. Xi has also served as the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 2013. He belongs to the fifth generation of Chinese leadership.
The history of the People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since 1 October 1949,when CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen,after a near complete victory (1949) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War. The PRC is the most recent political entity to govern mainland China,preceded by the Republic of China and thousands of years of monarchical dynasties. The paramount leaders have been Mao Zedong (1949-1976);Hua Guofeng (1976-1978);Deng Xiaoping (1978-1989);Jiang Zemin (1989-2002);Hu Jintao (2002-2012);and Xi Jinping.
Wang Huning is a Chinese political theorist and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),who is currently the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He has been a leading ideologist in the country since the 1990s. He has been a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee,China's top decision-making body since 2017,and is its fourth-ranking member since 2022.
The Xi Jinping–Li Keqiang Administration in China began in 2013,when Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang succeeded Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao following the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
The succession of power in China since 1949 takes place in the context of a one-party state under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite the guarantee of universal franchise in the constitution,the appointment of the Paramount leader lies largely in the hands of his predecessor and the powerful factions that control the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC),also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League (CYL),is a people's organization of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28,run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The league is organized on the party pattern. Its leader is its First Secretary,who is an alternate member of the Central Committee of the CCP. The incumbent First Secretary is A Dong,appointed in May 2023. The Communist Youth League is also responsible for guiding the activities of the Young Pioneers.
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,commonly abbreviated outside China as Xi Jinping Thought or Xi'ism,is an ideological doctrine created during General Secretary Xi Jinping's leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that combines Chinese Marxism and national rejuvenation. According to the CCP,Xi Jinping Thought "builds on and further enriches" previous party ideologies and has also been called as the "Marxism of contemporary China and of the 21st century". It consists of 14-point fundamental principles,which were announced together with Xi Jinping Thought.
Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Hong Kong columnist,newspaper editor,political commentator,political scientist,public policy analyst,sinologist,and writer. He is a frequent commentator on many major media networks regarding the current state of Chinese politics. He is currently a Jamestown Foundation fellow and an adjunct professor at the Centre for China Studies,Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),commonly referred to as ÈrshíDà,was held in the Great Hall of the People,Beijing from 16 to 22 October 2022. The National Congress is the highest organ of the party,and is stipulated to be held every five years. The conference had 2,296 delegates and 83 specially invited delegates.
