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A key publication titled The CPC: Its Mission and Contributions was issued on August 26 by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, intended to present the world with a true, multi-dimensional and panoramic account of the CPC. Since its founding one century ago, the CPC has evolved into the world’s largest party with more than 95 million members. To comprehend modern-day China, one must grasp an understanding of the CPC. This publication is highly relevant as it promotes a wider knowledge of the Party. Clarifying the roots of the CPC, the document answers what kind of party the CPC is and where it is heading. Based on facts and figures, it explains in what manner the CPC has enhanced the wellbeing of the Chinese…

After China was struck by Covid-19, the CPC and the Chinese government responded swiftly, putting people’s lives before all else. It organized massive nucleic acid testing and inoculation, made every effort to identify every case of infection and did everything possible to save patients and protect the people’s health. Treatment of Covid-19 patients is free of charge in China. All Covid-19 patients, both confirmed and suspected, have received government financial aid to pay for any medical bills not covered by basic medical insurance, serious disease insurance, or the medical assistance fund. As of June 2021, all medical expenditure of inpatients with confirmed infections had reached a total of RMB2.8 billion (with RMB1.6 billion paid by basic medical insurance), or RMB20,000 per person. The average cost of treating each Covid-19 patient…

China is a huge country with a large population and complex national conditions. In order to achieve independence, development, and prosperity it must have robust and decisive leadership. It is the CPC’s solidarity and unity, its firm leadership, and its strong governance capability that have rallied and united hundreds of millions of the Chinese people and overcome a multitude of difficulties and crises. 1. A Strong Central Committee The CPC is a mature Marxist political party organized in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism13. Upholding the authority of the Central Committee and its centralized leadership has always been one of the Party’s fundamental operational principles. Democratic centralism involves Party members deferring to Party organizations, the minority deferring to the majority, lower-level Party organizations deferring to higher-level organizations, and the…

The CPC is a political party that seeks happiness for the people and progress for humanity. No matter how the global situation might have changed, the CPC has always pursued the shared human values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom. It has championed internationalism, stood on the right side of history and the progressive side of humanity, and contributed to world peace and development. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China has moved closer to the center of the world stage. Playing a more active role in international affairs, the Party has consistently promoted major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics and the building of a global community of shared future. It has won respect from peace-loving people throughout the world with real actions, and friends of the…

The Communist Party of China (CPC), founded in 1921, has just celebrated its centenary. These hundred years have been a period of dramatic change—enormous productive forces unleashed, social transformation unprecedented in scale, and huge advances in human civilization. On the other hand, humanity has been afflicted by devastating wars and suffering. These hundred years have also witnessed profound and transformative change in China. And it is the CPC that has made this change possible. The Chinese nation is a great nation. With a history dating back more than 5,000 years, China has made an indelible contribution to human civilization. After the Opium War of 1840, however, China found itself plunged into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. It endured intense humiliation, its people were pushed into darkness, and the ancient Chinese…

Whole-process democracy, including democratic election, consultation, decision-making, management and scrutiny, operates across all of China’s governance mechanisms. By April 2021, more than 2.6 million people from various ethnic groups, sectors, social groups, and political parties, including a large number of workers and farmers, had served as deputies to people’s congresses at all levels. Since 2016, more than 1 billion registered voters have elected close to 2.5 million deputies to county and township level people’s congresses. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, public opinion has been solicited on 187 draft laws. Over 3 million submissions have been made by 1.1 million people, and many important proposals from these submissions have been adopted. During the compilation of the Civil Code, 10 rounds of public opinion were solicited, and more than…

Forever young are the revolutionaries. The CPC has always been able to maintain vigor and vitality and stand at the forefront of the times despite the many hardships it has endured in the past hundred years. This is because it has constantly engaged in significant self-reform while leading the people in a great social revolution. To maintain its health and vigor, it exercises effective self-supervision, practices strict self-discipline in every respect, consistently pursues improvement, and advances with the times. 1. Upholding Intra-Party Democracy The CPC’s advocacy and promotion of democracy is demonstrated first in its application within the Party. To achieve intra-Party democracy and create a political model characterized by centralism and democracy, by discipline and freedom, and by unity of will and individual initiative, the Party mobilizes all its…

The past hundred years have been the prologue. The past hundred years have witnessed the great struggle waged by the CPC to realize its goal of rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. They have also been an extraordinary and difficult hundred years. The CPC has led the Chinese people to outstanding achievements of which they can be proud. But they will never give in to complacency or slacken their efforts. On the contrary, they will continue to work hard and forge ahead. From a new starting point, the CPC and the Chinese people have set out on a new journey towards a modern socialist country. By the year 2035 China will realize socialist modernization, and by the middle of the 21st century, when the People’s Republic of China celebrates its centenary,…

Hairigul Kahar, a 30-year-old illustrator from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, hopes that Western mainstream media can hear Xinjiang people’s true voices vibrating through her latest art piece, entitled Voice of Xinjiang. The digital illustration depicts a Uygur man playing the Tanbur, a traditional local music instrument, seated by a window where some microphones are placed. “This image has been rooted in my brain since childhood. My father is a music fan in heart and soul,” Kahar told Beijing Review. Her father’s favorite instruments are the Tanbur and Dumbra, two Uygur-styled stringed instruments. Having witnessed too much Xinjiang-related misinformation in the past several years, she hopes that reporters can help lessen people’s misunderstandings of her birthplace, and stop vilifying the region. “There was something unhappy about Xinjiang. However, it has…

The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of China’s working class, the Chinese people, and the Chinese nation. Serving the people wholeheartedly is its abiding mission. The country is the people and the people are the country. The Party’s struggle to found a new China and develop it is for the people. Of the people, by the people, for the people—this is what has guided the CPC from victory to victory over the past century. 1. Putting the People First The CPC is dedicated to the people and forever puts their interests first. It follows the underlying trends of social development and respects the people’s principal role in making history. It pursues the lofty goal of working for the wellbeing of the Chinese people; and does everything in the…

Struggle is a distinctive attribute of the CPC. In a complex domestic and international environment, China has encountered unprecedented difficulties and challenges in its revolution, reconstruction, and reform. Since it was founded a hundred years ago, the Party has never given up on the struggle, whatever hardships, existential trials, or bitter sacrifices it faced. These hundred years have seen the Party fight on, guided by Marxism, and buttressed by firm convictions, an enterprising spirit, and unyielding determination. 1. Upholding Marxism Marxism is the single guiding ideology, the very soul of the CPC, and the banner under which it strives. Fundamentally, the strength of the Party and the strength of socialism with Chinese characteristics are attributable to the fact that Marxism works. The Party’s history of struggle is a process of…

In the Rectification Movement from the second half of 1951 to the spring of 1954, 410,000 out of 6.5 million members were expelled from the Party or urged to withdraw. In the Rectification Campaign from 1983 to 1987, through membership registration and management by Party organizations, nearly 33,900 members were expelled from the Party, 90,000 were denied registration, 145,000 had their registration suspended, and 184,000 were subjected to disciplinary sanctions such as probation within the Party, removal from a position within the Party, recommended removal from a position outside the Party, warning, and severe warning. The Party Member Re-registration in 1989 and 1990 involved 3.75 million Party members working in central and local departments. In this process, appropriate action was taken against substandard members, who represented a very small minority,…

The astonishing transformation of China—its economic prowess, its rapid urbanization without slum cities, its scientific and technological prowess, the education of its vast population, its modern infrastructure which is the envy of much of the world, and its continually evolving pattern of governance that has enabled all these developments—has of course all occurred under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The unprecedented accomplishments that China incessantly rolled out all required the vision, skill, staying power, and constant transformation of the CPC itself. They demanded the continual summing up of its experiences, and what polls suggest is popular support for the CPC’s leadership—little of this can be viewed objectively or approached with an open mind in the U.S. Obligatory objectivity Part of the problem, even among those open…