Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party

The Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party has 53 articles and its contents describe the program of the Party, as well as its organizational structure and Party symbolism.

Not to be confused with Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party
Front cover of the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party
Simplified Chinese中国共产党章程
Traditional Chinese中國共産黨章程
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History

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s constitution currently in force was adopted at the 12th National Congress of the CCP in September 1982. In accordance with the changing situation and tasks, revisions were made in some of the articles at the 13th National Congress in November 1987 and in the General Program and some of the articles at the 14th National Congress in October 1992, and a few revisions were made in the General Program at the 16th National Congress of the CCP in November 2002.

In March 2004, The "Three Represents" were written into the constitution.[1] New changes and additions were made at CCP's 19th National Congress in October 2017[2] and at its 20th National Congress in October 2022.[3]

Contents

The Party Constitution is composed of a preamble titled "General Program", followed by 11 numbered chapters composed of 53 articles. The chapters are, in order:

  1. Membership
  2. The Party's Organizational System
  3. Central Party Organizations
  4. Local Party Organizations
  5. Primary-Level Party Organizations
  6. Party Officials
  7. Party Discipline
  8. Party Organs for Discipline Inspection
  9. Leading Party Member Groups
  10. Relationship between the Party and the Communist Youth League of China
  11. Party Emblem and Flag

The organizational principle that drives the political system of the PRC is "democratic centralism". Within the system, the democratic feature demands participation and expression of opinion on key policy issues from members at all levels of party organization. It depends on a constant process of consultation and investigation. At the same time, the centralist feature requires that subordinate organizational levels follow the dictates of superior levels. Once the debate has reached the highest level and decisions concerning policy have been made, all party members are obliged to support the Central Committee.[2]

The constitution emphasizes the party's role in promoting socialist democracy, in developing and strengthening a socialist legal system, and in consolidating public resolve to carry out the modernization program.[2]

See also

References
  1. Huang, Yibing (2020). An ideological history of the Communist Party of China. Vol. 3. Qian Zheng, Guoyou Wu, Xuemei Ding, Li Sun, Shelly Bryant. Montreal, Quebec. pp. 474–475. ISBN 978-1-4878-0425-1. OCLC 1165409653.
  2. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. "China: Chinese Communist Party: Party Constitution". Country Studies. Federal Research Division. Retrieved October 31, 2004.
  3. "China's Communist Party amends constitution, cementing Xi's status as 'core' of the party". Reuters. October 22, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
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