Industrial Era1932 CE – 1949 CEPeak: 2.8M km² (1949 CE)

Communist Party of China: Map & History

The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and sole governing party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Governing party of the People's Republic of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and sole governing party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP won the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang and proclaimed the establishment of the PRC under the chairmanship of Mao Zedong in October 1949. The CCP has since governed China and has had absolute control over the country's armed forces and law enforcement. As of 2025, the CCP has more than 101 million members, making it the second largest political party by membership in the world.

Peak Territory

2,785,265 km²

Preceded By

Zhōnggòng

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Modern Countries Once Part of Communist Party of China

At its mapped extent, Communist Party of China covered territory in 1 present-day country. The period shown is when the mapped borders include that country, and the note says how much of it.

China1932–1949 CE · a large part

States and Provinces

Largest Present-Day Cities in Its Territory

Each opens on the live map inside Communist Party of China's borders of that time.

Derived by testing mapped cities against this polity's dated territorial polygons, so the list is indicative and follows the borders in the source dataset.

Communist Party of China in Depth

History

The October Revolution and Marxist theory inspired the founding of the CCP. Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao were among the first to publicly support Leninism and world revolution. Both regarded the October Revolution in Russia as groundbreaking, believing it to herald a new era for oppressed countries everywhere.

Some historical analysis views the May Fourth Movement as the beginning of the revolutionary struggle that led to the founding of the People's Republic of China. Following the movement, trends towards social transformation increased. Writing in 1939, Mao Zedong stated that the Movement had shown that the bourgeois revolution against imperialism and China had developed to a new stage, but that the proletariat would lead the revolution's completion.

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