The Chinese Communist Party, which formed in 1921 and has ruled the People's Republic of China since 1949, celebrated its 100th anniversary on Thursday, July 1.

As the ruling party, the CCP monopolizes both the state and society in China. It controls the military and the police, along with personnel appointments across all of China's political institutions, the media and the judiciary.

With more than 90 million members, the CCP is one of the largest political parties in the world.

The party's leader, Xi Jinping, has been China's President since 2013. A controversial change to the country's constitution abolished term limits in 2018, paving the way for Xi to stay in power indefinitely.

The Chinese Communist Party traces its roots to the May Fourth Movement of 1919. On May 4, 1919, student demonstrators took to the streets of Beijing in huge numbers to protest negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles, the peace deal drawn up to end World War I. Even though China was on the winning side, the Western powers had decided to hand over Germany's former concessions in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong to Japan. (Japan, with support from the British, had captured the port of Qingdao in Shandong from the Germans in 1914.)

This news outraged Chinese students, including those from the prestigious Peking University, pictured here. As thousands of students marched toward Tiananmen Gate, Japanese goods and books were piled up and burned on the streets. The protesters also focused their anger on their own government, which they saw as weak and ineffective in the face of Western imperialism.

Two years later, the Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai.


https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/30/asia/gallery/china-communist-party-100th-anniversary/index.html

I think they have done great for their nation, by lifting many people out of poverty in a few decades. Deng Xiaoping was indeed the man that inspired the free zones experiment in Shenzhen and other big cities.

One good point of about china’s rise is the fact that they have made basic to mid-level technology available for developing countries like Nigeria. We don’t need to invent the wheel any more, we and many other developing countries could start industries with the Chinese supply chain. But sadly many countries like Nigeria have failed to tap into this opportunity.

When the west had this technology, it was very expensive and inaccessible for many developing nations like Nigeria. A good exemplar is Power Generator, back then it was not available nor affordable.