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
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