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 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 worker,
peasant, member of the armed forces, intellectual or any other
revolutionary 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 60 million in 1997.
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.
National Congresses of CPC so Far
| Session |
Time |
Venue |
| 1st |
Jul. 1-5,
1921 |
Shanghai |
| 2nd |
Jul. 16-23, 1922 |
Shanghai |
| 3rd |
Jun. 10-20, 1923 |
Guangzhou |
| 4th |
Jan. 11-22, 1925 |
Shanghai |
| 5th |
Apr. 27, 1927 |
Wuhan |
| 6th |
Jun. 18-Jul. 11, 1928 |
Moscow,
USSR |
| 7th |
Apr. 23-Jun. 11, 1945 |
Beijing |
| 8th |
Sept. 15-27, 1956 |
Beijing |
| 9th |
Apr. 1-24, 1969 |
Beijing |
| 10th |
Aug. 24-28, 1973 |
Beijing |
| 11th |
Aug. 12-18, 1977 |
Beijing |
| 12th |
Sept. 1-11, 1982 |
Beijing |
| 13th |
Oct. 25-Nov. 1, 1987 |
Beijing |
| 14th |
Oct.12-18, 1992 |
Beijing |
| 15th |
Sept.12-19, 1997 |
Beijing |
Source: China
Daily
