1. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party General information General Secretary Xi jinping State organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cnState organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cn Founded July 1, 1921 Headquarters : Zhongnanhai, Beijing Political ideology: Deng Xiaoping Theory with Socialism with Chinese characteristics, Three Represents, Scientific Development Concept Standing Committee : State organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cnState organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cn Number of members: 83,000,000 (2012)

2. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 1. The history of the CCP(CPC) founded in July 1921. From 1921 to 1949, the CPC led the Chinese people in their arduous armed struggle and finally succeeded in overthrowing the rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism and establishing the People's Republic of China (PRC). After the founding of the PRC, the CPC led the Chinese people of in defending the independence and security of the country, successfully completing the transition from new democratic revolution to socialist revolution, carrying out systematic large-scale socialist construction, and achieving economic and cultural progress unparalleled in Chinese history.

3. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 1. The history of the CCP(CPC) After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Party Central Committee at the end of 1978, the country embarked on the biggest change in the history of New China. From 1979, the CPC began to carry out the reform and opening-up policy initiated by Deng Xiaoping. In three decades since the initiation of the reform and opening-up, China's economic and social development has been crowned with remarkable success and the country has taken on a new look. This has been the best period since the founding of the PRC in which the Chinese people have reaped the most material benefits.

4. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 2. Nature of the CCP(CPC) The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class as well as the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. It is the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Three Represents: the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture, the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people

5. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 3. The Principle of Democratic Centralism Individual Party members are subordinate to the Party organization, the minority is subordinate to the majority, the lower Party organizations are subordinate to the higher Party organizations, and all the constituent organizations and members of the Party are subordinate to the National Congress and the Central Committee of the Party.

6. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 3. The Principle of Democratic Centralism highest leading body of the Party is the National Congress and the Central Committee elected by it. The leading bodies of local Party organizations are the Party congresses at their respective levels and the Party committees elected by them. Party committees are responsible, and report their work, to the Party congresses at their respective levels.

7. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 3. The Principle of Democratic Centralism Higher Party organizations shall pay constant attention to the views of lower organizations and the rank-and-file Party members, and solve in good time the problems they raise. Lower Party organizations shall report their work to, and request instructions from, higher Party organizations; at the same time, they shall handle, independently and in a responsible manner, matters within their jurisdiction. Higher and lower Party organizations should exchange information and support and supervise each other. Party organizations at all levels should enable Party members to keep well informed of inner-Party affairs and to have as many opportunities as possible to involve themselves in them.

8. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 3. The Principle of Democratic Centralism Party committees at all levels function on the principle of combining collective leadership with individual responsibility based on division of labor. All major issues shall be decided upon by the Party committees after discussion in accordance with the principle of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual consultations and decision- making through formal meetings. Members of the Party committees should earnestly perform their duties in accordance with the collective decisions taken and division of labor.

9. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 3. The Principle of Democratic Centralism The Party forbids all forms of personality cult. It is necessary to ensure that the activities of the Party leaders are subject to the supervision of the Party and the people, and at the same time to uphold the prestige of all the leaders who represent the interests of the Party and the people.

10. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The highest leading body of the Party is the National Congress and the Central Committee elected by it. The Central Committee is responsible, and report their work to the National Congress. The National Congress of the Party is held once every five years and convened by the Central Committee. It may be convened before the normally scheduled date if the Central Committee deems it necessary or if more than one-third of the organizations at the provincial level so request. Except under extraordinary circumstances, the Congress may not be postponed.

11. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party National Congress of CCP CCP Central Committee Central Discipline Inspection Committee General Secretary of CCP Political Bureau Standing Committee Political Bureau Central Military Committee Secretariat Organizational Structure of CCP

12. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP National Congress of the Party functions and powers To hear and examine the reports of the Central Committee; To hear and examine the reports of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection: To discuss and decide on major questions concerning the Party; To revise the Constitution of the Party; To elect the Central Committee; To elect the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

13. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP National Congress of the Party : Every five years, the Communist Party of China holds a National Congress. The latest happened on Nov. 8, 2012. Formally, the Congress serves two functions: to approve changes to the Party constitution regarding policy and to elect a Central Committee, about 300 strong. The Central Committee in turn elects the Politburo. In practice, positions within the Central Committee and Politburo are determined before a Party Congress, and the main purpose of the Congress is to announce the party policies and vision for the direction of China in the following few years.

14. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP When the National Congress is not in session, the Central Committee, by annually meeting, carries out its decisions, directs the entire work of the Party and represents the Communist Party of China in its external relations. The current Central Committee near the end of its term shall determine the number of delegates to the next National Congress of the Party and the procedure governing their election.

15. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The leading bodies of the Central Committee Political Bureau, State organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cnState organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cn Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party. They are elected by the Central Committee at the plenary session.

16. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP When the Central Committee is not in session, the Political Bureau, by its monthly meeting, and its Standing Committee, by its weekly meeting, exercise the functions and powers of the Central Committee. The General Secretary of the Central Committee is responsible for convening the meetings of the Political Bureau and its Standing Committee and presides over the work of the Secretariat. State organs and Chinese leaders | |chinadaily.com.cn

17. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The central leading military body of Communist Party of China is the Military Commission of the Central Committee. The members of the Military Commission of the Central Committee are decided on by the Central Committee. 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.

18. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) is elected by the NPC, and the selection of other members are decided by the NPC and its Standing Committee on the basis of the nomination by the chairman. The state Central Military Commission follows the system of chairman responsibility in work, while the chairman is responsible to the NPC and has the right to make final decisions on affairs within its functions and powers.

19. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP In actual practice, the party CMC, after consultation with the democratic parties, proposes the names of the State CMC members of the NPC so that these people after going through the legal processes can be elected by the NPC to the State Central Military Commission. That is to say, that the party CMC and the state CMC are one group and one organization. However, looking at it organizationally, these two CMCs are subordinate to two different systems – the party system and the State system.

20. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP Therefore the armed forces are under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party and are also the armed forces of the state. This is unique joint leadership system reflects the origin of the PLA as the military branch of the Communist Party. It only became the national military when the People's Republic was established in 1949.

21. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP By convention, the chairman and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission are civilian members of the Communist Party of China, but they are not necessarily the heads of the civilian government. Both Jiang Zemin and Deng Xiaoping retained the office of chairman even after relinquishing their other positions. All of the other members of the CMC are uniformed active military officials.Jiang ZeminDeng Xiaoping As with other nations, the Ministry of National Defense is not the head of the military, but is usually a vice chairman of the CMC.Ministry of National Defense

22. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The Secretariat of the Central Committee is the working body of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and its Standing Committee. The members of the Secretariat are nominated by the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and are subject to endorsement by the Central Committee in plenary session.

23. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party Significant organizations under the central committee General Office Central Organization Department Propaganda Department International Liaison Department United Front Department Central Political and Legislative Affairs Committee Work Committee for Organs under the Central Committee Work Committee for Central Government Organs Central Financial and Economic Leading Group Central Leading Group for Rural Work

24. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party Significant organizations under the central committee Central Leading Group for Party Building Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group Central Taiwan Affairs Leading Group Commission for Protection of Party Secrets Leading Group for State Security Party History Research Centre Party Research Center Central Party School

25. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The Central Discipline Inspection Commission It is directly under the National Congress and on the same level with the Central Committee, charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among party cadres.

26. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP Party Organs for Discipline Inspection Party Organs for Discipline Inspection include the leadership of the Central Committee of the Party, the Party's commissions for discipline inspection at all levels and primary commissions for discipline inspection. The Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection functions under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Party. The Party's local commissions for discipline inspection at all levels and primary commissions for discipline inspection function under the dual leadership of the Party committees at the corresponding levels and the next higher commissions for discipline inspection.

27. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP Local Organizations of the Party The Party congress of a province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, city divided into districts, or autonomous prefecture is held once every five years. Local Party congresses are convened by the Party committees at the corresponding levels. Under extraordinary circumstances, they may be held before or after their normally scheduled dates upon approval by the next higher Party committees.

28. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The functions and powers of the local Party congresses at all levels are as follows: To hear and examine the reports of the Party committees at the corresponding levels; To hear and examine the reports of the commissions for discipline inspection at the corresponding levels; To discuss and decide on major issues in given areas; To elect the Party committees and commissions for discipline inspection at the corresponding levels.

29. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP The Party congress of a province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government, city divided into districts or autonomous prefecture is elected for a term of five years. The local Party committees at various levels meet in plenary session at least twice a year. The standing committees of local Party committees at various levels exercise the powers and functions of local Party committees when the latter are not at the session.

30. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP Primary Organizations of the Party Primary Party organizations are formed in China's mainland enterprises, rural areas, government departments, schools, scientific research institutes, communities, mass organizations, intermediaries, companies of the People's Liberation Army and other basic units, where there are at least three full Party members.

31. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 4. The Structure of CCP In primary organizations, primary Party committees and committees of general Party branches or Party branches are set up as the work requires and according to the number of Party members, subject to approval by the higher Party organizations. A primary Party committee is elected by a general membership meeting or a delegate meeting. The committee of a general Party branch or a Party branch is elected by a general membership meeting. A primary Party committee is elected for a term of three to five years, while a general Party branch committee or a Party branch committee is elected for a term of two or three years

32. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 5. Membership Members of the Communist Party of China are vanguard fighters of the Chinese working class imbued with communist consciousness. Any Chinese worker, farmer, member of the armed forces, intellectual or any advanced element of other social strata who has reached the age of eighteen and who 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 in the Communist Party of China.

33. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 5. Membership New Party members must be admitted through a Party branch, and the principle of individual admission must be adhered to. An applicant for Party membership must fill in an application form and be introduced by two full Party members. The application must be accepted at a general membership meeting of the Party branch concerned and approved by the next higher Party organization, and the applicant must undergo observation for a year-long probationary period before being granted full membership.

34. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 5. Membership Every party member, irrespective of position, must be organized into a branch, cell or other specific unit of the Party to participate in the regular activities of the Party organization. Party members are free to withdraw from the Party. When a Party member asks to withdraw, the Party branch concerned shall, after discussion by its general membership meeting, remove his name from the Party rolls, make the removal public and report it to the next higher Party organization for the record.

35. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 6. People’s Liberation army and the CCP The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China. The People's Liberation Army's insignia consists of a roundel with a red star bearing the Chinese characters for "Eight One" referring to August 1, the date of the 1927 Nanchang Uprising...\PLA insignia.jpg

36. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 6. People’s Liberation army and the CCP The PLA is the world's third largest military force, with approximately 3 million members and has the world's largest standing army, with approximately 2.25 million members. The PLA comprises five main service branches consisting of the PLA Ground Force, PLA Navy (PLAN), PLA Air Force (PLAAF), Second Artillery Corps (strategic nuclear or missile force), and the People's Armed Police (PAP). (Both the PLA and the PAP are under the lead of Central Military Commission).

37. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 6. People’s Liberation army and the CCP The PLA is formally under the command of the Central Military Commission of the CCP; there is also an identical commission in the government, but it has no clear independent functions. The Ministry of National Defense, which operates under the State Council, does not exercise any authority over the PLA and is far less powerful than the Central Military Commission. The ministry assures continuing CCP control over the armed forces, and its primary role is that of a liaison office with foreign militaries.

38. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 6. People’s Liberation army and the CCP The political and military leaderships has made a concerted effort to create a professional military force restricted to national defense and to the provision of assistance in domestic economic construction and emergency relief. This conception of the role of the PLA requires the promotion of specialized officers who can understand modern weaponry and handle combined arms operations. Troops around the country are stationed in seven military regions and more than 20 military districts.

39. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals of the CCP. fulfilling the three historical tasks of (1) advancing the modernization drive, (2) achieving national reunification, (3) safeguarding world peace and promoting common development

40. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals of the CCP. improving the Party's style of work, stress the maintenance of its close ties with the people. Institutionally, improving democratic centralism. In enhancing the Party's capacity to fight corruption and uphold integrity, focus on improving the institutions for punishing and preventing corruption. enable the Party to remain a ruling Marxist party that is built for public interests and exercises governance for the people; a party that is realistic, pragmatic and committed to reform and innovation; a party that is hardworking and clean; and a party that is full of vigor and enjoys solidarity and harmony.

41. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals the CCP. Continue to strengthen the Party's governance capability and focus on building high-quality leading bodies. Strengthening the Party's governance capability has an overall impact on Party building and the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Expand intra-Party democracy and focus on enhancing the Party's solidarity and unity. Intra-Party democracy provides an important guarantee for improving the Party's creativity and reinforcing its solidarity and unity. The party will expand intra-Party democracy to develop people's democracy and increase intra-Party harmony to promote social harmony.

42. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals of the CCP. Continue to deepen reform of the cadre and personnel system and focus on training high-caliber cadres and personnel. Adhering to the principle that the Party is in charge of cadre management, the party will establish a scientific mechanism for selecting and appointing cadres on the basis of democracy, openness, competition and merit. Standardize the cadre nomination system, perfect the cadre assessment system and improve the procedures for open selection, competition for positions and multi-candidate election.

43. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals of the CCP. Consolidate and develop all the achievements of the campaign to educate Party members to preserve their vanguard nature, and focus on strengthening primary Party organizations. Do a good job in the basic project to build a strong Party membership and keep improving their quality. The vanguard nature is the source of life and strength for a Marxist party, and has to be demonstrated by its tens of millions of members of quality.

44. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals of the CCP. Effectively improve the Party's style of work and focus on combating corruption and upholding integrity. The Party's fine style of work is a great force holding Party members together and winning popular support. Uphold the viewpoint of historical materialism that it is the people who make history, remain committed to serving the people wholeheartedly and adhere to the mass line. Earnestly listen to their appeals, truthfully reflect their wishes, sincerely help alleviate their hardships and do more practical work for their benefit, putting into practice the principle of exercising power for the people, showing concern for them and working for their interests.

45. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 7. Larger goals of the CCP. dedicated itself to the historical mission of leading the Chinese people in striving for a happy life and for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The ongoing reform, opening up and socialist modernization drive undertaken by the people of all ethnic groups under the Party's leadership are a continuation and development of the great cause of socialist construction and the great cause of the Chinese people's struggle for national independence, prosperity and strength since modern times.

46. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 8. Satisfactions of the CCP. have followed the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents, kept up with new developments and changes in and outside China, grasped the strategic opportunities in this important period, promoted the truth-seeking, pragmatic and pioneering spirit and persisted in innovation in both theory and practice. have worked hard to promote scientific development and social harmony, improved the socialist market economy, and resolutely carried forward the great cause of reform and opening up in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

47. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 8. Satisfactions of the CCP. Reform and opening up constitute the most salient feature of the new period. the process of sweeping reform has unfolded with irresistible momentum, the door has been resolutely opened to the outside world. This reform and opening up has greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of hundreds of millions of Chinese people and brought about from a highly centralized planned economy to a robust socialist market economy, and from a closed or semi-closed state to all-round opening up.

48. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 8. Satisfactions of the CCP. Rapid development represents the most remarkable achievement in the new period. The Party has been implementing the three-step strategy for modernization, leading the people in working hard to promote China's sustained rapid development at a rate rarely seen in the world. China's economy, once on the verge of collapse, has grown to rank as the second largest in the world, and its import and export volume, the third biggest. The Chinese people, once inadequately fed and clad, are leading a fairly comfortable life on the whole.

49. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 8. Satisfactions of the CCP. The impoverished population in rural areas has dropped from more than 250 million to just over 20 million. The country's achievements in political, cultural and social development have captured world attention. China's development has not only enabled its people to move steadily toward prosperity and happiness, but also contributed substantially to the growth of the world economy and the progress of human civilization.

50. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 8. Satisfactions of the CCP. Adhering to the basic tenets of Marxism with adapting it to Chinese conditions, upholding the Four Cardinal Principles with adhering to the reform and opening up policy, respecting the people's pioneering initiative with strengthening the Party's leadership, Adhering to the basic system of socialism with developing the market economy, effecting changes in the economic base with promoting reform of the superstructure, developing the productive forces with improving the cultural and ethical quality of the whole nation,

51. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 8. Satisfactions of the CCP. Raising efficiency with promoting social equity, pursuing independent development with taking part in economic globalization, promoting reform and development with maintaining social stability, and advancing the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics with making progress in the great new undertaking to build the Party. In this course the Party has gained invaluable experience in eliminating poverty, accelerating modernization, and consolidating and developing socialism in a large developing country of over one billion people.

52. Part Two :The Chinese Communist Party 9. Fears of the CCP. Governance legitimacy Bureaucratic Corruption (expansion and seriousness) Unbalanced development (cities vs rural areas, coast areas vs west areas, industry vs agriculture, the rich vs the poor, development vs nature) Social stability (Tibet issue, Taiwan issue, northwestern separatist movement) Improvement of the quality of people’s life (Social security system, social justice) The international image, peaceful development and cooperation with the rest of the world

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