100th anniversary of founding of Chinese Communist Party

China will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its ruling party “the Communist Party” founding on 1st July 2021.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021

The CPC was founded by Mao Zedong and his associates in 1921.

It fought bloody wars at home both against political rivals and the Japanese occupation and took over power in 1949 forming the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The CPC has undergone a total ideological makeover after Mao’s death in 1976.

On the brink of collapse after Mao’s disastrous ideological experiments like the 1958 “Great Leap Forward” and the 1966 ”Cultural Revolution”, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million people, the CPC was revived by moderate “paramount leader” Deng Xiaoping.

Deng replaced Mao’s hardline Marxism with a pragmatic ideology of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” which supposedly helped China to emerge as the second-largest economy of the world.