(Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) Since the end of the Mao Zedong era in the mid-1970s, China’s ruling Communist Party has convened a national congress every five years to choose a new leadership team ...

the Chinese Communist Party will begin its 20th National Congress, the highest-level and most important assembly of China’s senior political and military leadership. Past party congresses have been ...

Xi’s choice to visit Yanan — a site inextricably linked with Mao Zedong (毛澤東) and communist China’s founding ... culminating in his being anointed with a historic third term following a Chinese ...

The CCP Congress began after Mao Zedong's rule in order to ensure timely leadership changes preventing another Mao-style dictatorship in the country. The meeting consolidates close to 2,300 ...

In some important and intriguing ways, the outcome of the 20th Party Congress recalls that of the Ninth Party Congress in April 1969. There, Mao Zedong, the domineering leader of the CCP, reached the ...

The Chinese Communist ... Congress begins on October 16. The conclusion of the weeklong event is expected to pave the way for him to become the longest-ruling party boss since Mao Zedong.

The Chinese Communist Party ... year's National People's Congress. A third term would make him the longest-serving leader in the country's modern history since Chairman Mao Zedong, the founding ...

The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislative body and highest state organ ... further reduces their opportunities to be considered for positions of power. It is long past time for the CCP ...

Marquis is Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge Business School and author of the new book, Mao and Markets ... the 20th Party Congress: (1) the CCP at the center; (2) control ...

Vastness is a defining feature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It has more than ... anointed as the party’s “core” leaders: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and the most ...

At the recently concluded party congress ... Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions have mostly eluded the Chinese Communist Party. Though it is one of the world’s largest ...