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HOW CHINA IS RULED: COMMUNIST PARTY (R)

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13904437






             HOW CHINA IS RULED: 

              COMMUNIST PARTY 



 8 October 2012












Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party's more than 80m-strong 
membership makes it the biggest political party in the 
world. Its tight organisation and ruthlessness help 
explain why it is also still in power.


The party oversees and influences many aspects of 
people's lives - what they learn at school and watch on 
TV, even the number of children they are allowed.


It is made up largely of government officials, army 
officers, farmers, model workers and employees of state-
owned companies.


It is unrepresentative of China as a whole. Only a 
quarter of its members are women, for example. It is 
also obsessive about control, regularly showing itself 
capable of great brutality in suppressing dissent or any 
challenge to its authority.

Joining the party brings significant privileges. Members 
get access to better information, and many jobs are only 
open to members. Most significantly in China, where 
personal relationships are often more important than 
ability, members get to network with decision-makers 
influencing their careers, lives or businesses.

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Pyramid Structure

To join, applicants need the backing of existing  
members and to undergo exhaustive checks and 
examination by their local party branch. They then face 
a year's probation, again involving assessments and 
training.

The party has a pyramid structure resting on millions of 
local-level party organisations across the country and 
reaching all the way up to the highest decision-making 
bodies in Beijing.

In theory, the top of the pyramid is the National Party 
Congress, which is convened once every five years and 
brings together more than 2,000 delegates from party 
organisations across the country.

The congress' main function is to "elect" a central 
committee of about 200 full members and 150 lower-
ranking or "alternate" members", though in fact almost 
all of these people are approved in advance.

In turn, the central committee's main job is to elect a 
new politburo and its smaller, standing committee, 
where real decision-making powers lie.

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