The Communist Party of China: the Past, Present and Future of Party Building

Imagine what it’s like to effectively organize and develop a political party with over 65 million (65m) members – that’s bigger than the total populations of many of the world’s most developed countries such as the UK (65m), France (64m), and Australia (24m).

Then imagine that, if the Communist Party of China (CPC) was a country, its population would rank as the 21^st biggest in the world. In addition to developing and organizing its 65m party members, it had to embed them among a population...