The Communist Party of China (CPC), founded in July 1921, today has more than 60 million members. Vice President Hu Jintao, succeeded Jiang Zemin in November 2002, is the current general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

From 1921 to 1949, the CPC led the Chinese people in their arduous struggles that finally led to the overthrow of the rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism with the establishment of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of New China, the CPC, as a party in power, led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in defending the independence and safety of the country, successfully completing the transition from new democracy to socialism and carrying out systematic large-scale socialist construction, thus achieving economic and cultural progress unparalleled in Chinese history.

The fifth plenary session of the Fourteenth Party's Congress adopted the proposal on the Outline of the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-range Objectives to the Year 2010. At present, the Chinese people, led by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao at the core, work hard to achieve the great programs. The Communist Party of China leads the people in developing national economy and at the same time   building the society with advanced culture and ethics. The Communist Party of China leads the people in promoting socialist democracy and building socialist political civilization. It keeps expanding socialist democracy, strengthens the socialist legal system, rules the country by law, builds a socialist country under the rule of law and consolidates the people's democratic dictatorship, and perseveres in the system of people's congresses and the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

Now the CPC is leading the Chinese people to build socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive to achieve its ultimate goal -- communism.