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| May 17, 2013
When China's new president Xi Jinping assumed office, he made waves for leaning towards reformist policies. Observers predicted considerable change as China continues to struggle with political corruption and freedom of opinion. LinkAsia's David B...
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CCTV News
| Apr 10, 2013
China is worried about a real estate bubble. Housing prices have been rising by double digits in almost every Chinese city, and in Beijing alone have skyrocketed 22 percent in the past year. State-run CCTV News reports that the government is tryin...
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CCTV News
| Apr 10, 2013
The life of a Beijing school child just got a little easier. The city's government has issued eight new measures, including no homework for the lowest grades. State-run CCTV News reports on why the government is trying to ease young students' burd...
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CCTV News
| Apr 2, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook released an official statement on Monday apologizing for Apple's double standard in after-sales services in China. CCTV broke the story last month that Apple's warranties in China were different than those in other countries, an...
NTDTV
| Mar 28, 2013
A top official in Beijing has crushed Hong Kong's hopes for a genuinely democratic election in 2017 by informing the largely self-governing territory's people that although they can vote for a chief executive, the central goverment may veto their ...
ITN News
| Mar 27, 2013
A lanky Welsh expatriate has become the talk of China with his rousing renditions of old-school Communist revolutionary anthems. Iain Inglis made it to the semi-finals of China's Got Talent, where he wore a Red Army uniform to sing 'I Love Reading...
LinkAsia
| Mar 19, 2013
This past week, the 3,000 delegates of China's National People's Congress approved the selection of a new president and prime minister. Now, as they start the first of two five-year terms, LinkAsia speaks with Beijing-based scholar Zhang Lifan, Ch...
NTDTV
| Mar 14, 2013
China has congratulated the new pope and told him improved relations with Beijing are possible as long as he does what he's told. The country's foreign minister says Pope Francis needs to cut Vatican ties with Taiwan and avoid meddling in China's ...
Associated Press
| Mar 13, 2013
China's National People's Congress sealed the country's once-in-a-decade leadership transition by formally confirming Xi Jinping as China's new president. Delegates approved Xi as successor to Hu Jintai by a vote of 2,952 to 1, with three abstenti...
LinkAsia
| Mar 11, 2013
China's annual National People's Congress just completed its first week, and there are signs that this Congress is going to be different from the boring meetings of recent years. LinkAsia speaks with David Bandurski of Hong Kong University about t...
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The Communist Party of China, also known as the Chinese Communist Party, is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China. Although nominally it exists alongside the United Front, a coalition of governing political parties, in practice, the CPC is the only party in the PRC, maintaining a unitary government and centralizing the state, military, and media. The legal power of the Communist Party is guaranteed by the national constitution, though due to the Party's Leninist roots, it stands above the law. The current party leader is Xi Jinping, who holds the title of General Secretary of the Central Committee.
Since becoming an institution of the state, aside from official commitment to communism and Marxism-Leninism, the party also has de facto unrecognized factions including consumerist and neoliberal figures including business people on the right who effectively support capitalism, as well as factions on the left that oppose the right in the party, and other factions.
The party was founded in July 1921 in Shanghai. After a lengthy civil war, the CPC defeated its primary rival, the Kuomintang, and assumed full control of mainland China by 1949. The Kuomintang retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it still remains to this day.
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