Al Jazeera English
| Dec 22, 2012
China has banned senior military officers from holding alcohol-heavy banquets or from staying in luxury hotels when on work trips. Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, joins Al Jazeera from Hong Kong to explain the new rule.
LinkAsia
| Dec 7, 2012
Migrant workers in China struggle with life in the big city, but the children they leave behind often struggle even more. LinkAsia speaks with UNICEF China's Dale Rutstein about the pilot projects he is working on to make life easier for the child...
LinkAsia
| Dec 7, 2012
Earlier this year, it was president-in-waiting Xi Jinping who mysteriously disappeared from public view. Now, it's new propaganda chief Liu Qibao. Contributor David Bandurski reports on China's "systemic obsession with secrecy" involving the well-...
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CCTV News
| Dec 6, 2012
A stunning concession from state-run Chinese media: "A growing number of microbloggers are becoming a force to be reckoned with in exposing abuse of power." CCTV News attempts to appropriate Weibo's power to take down low-level corrupt Party offic...
LinkAsia
| Nov 30, 2012
The American satirical news outlet The Onion ran a piece last week naming North Korean leader Kim Jong-un the Sexiest Man Alive. Something must have been lost in translation, because China's Communist Party-run People's Daily picked up the story w...
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CCTV News
| Nov 29, 2012
All seven new members of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China hit the town to check out China's National Museum. State-run CCTV News has this glowing report on China's past and future.
NTDTV
| Nov 27, 2012
The Chinese Communist Party has been making headlines today -- by sticking its foot squarely in its official mouthpiece. The People's Daily newspaper was quick to assume a news report about the leader of fellow Communist ally North Korea was compl...
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CCTV News
| Nov 26, 2012
There has been a massive outburst of public grief in China after five children were found dead in a trash container in Guizhou province last week. State-run CCTV News reports on the repercussions for those responsible for the young boys.
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CCTV News
| Nov 16, 2012
When bureaucratic infighting ceased and the dust settled, China unveiled the seven men who will determine the future of the country. State-run CCTV News reports on General Secretary Xi Jinping and the other six members of the CPC Central Committee...
LinkAsia
| Nov 16, 2012
China's new president Xi Jinping is the son of a revolutionary leader and has a reputation for being a business-friendly problem solver. But does this mean he will be a reformer? LinkAsia speaks with Josh Chin, Beijing Digital Editor for the Wall ...
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...for its construction was later given a suspended death sentence for corruption, according to state media. The "cleanup inspection" is part of a ...
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...surrounding the dismissal of Bo Xilai, the former party chairman of the city of Chongqing. A day before Bo's dismissal on March 15, Wen had told...
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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