Communist Party of China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Communist Party of China 中国共产党 Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Danghui.svg General Secretary Xi Jinping Standing Committee Xi Jinping Li Keqiang Zhang Dejiang Yu Zhengsheng Liu Yunshan Wang Qishan Zhang Gaoli Founded 1 July 1921; 96 years ago Headquarters Zhongnanhai, Xicheng District, Beijing Newspaper Peoples Daily Youth wing Communist Youth League Popular front United Front Armed wing Peoples Liberation Army Membership (2017 2018) 88.76 million[1] Ideology Communism Marxism-Leninism Socialism with Chinese characteristics International affiliation International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties and International Communist Seminar Slogan Serve the People Anthem The Internationale National Peoples Congress 2,157 / 2,987 Party flag Flag of the Chinese Communist Party.svg Website english.cpc.people.com.cn Politics of Peoples Republic of China Communist Party of China Chinese name Simplified Chinese 中国共产党 Traditional Chinese 中國共產黨 Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng [show]Transcriptions Abbreviated name Chinese 中共 Hanyu Pinyin Zhōng Gòng [show]Transcriptions Tibetan name Tibetan ཀྲུང་གོ་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏང [show]Transcriptions Uyghur name Uyghur جۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيىسى [show]Transcriptions This article contains Chinese text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters. The Communist Party of China (CPC)[a] is the founding and ruling political party of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). The CPC is the sole governing party of China, although it coexists alongside eight other legal parties that make up the United Front; these parties, however, hold no real power or independence from the CPC. It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. The party grew quickly, and by 194
