When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

After a lengthy civil war, the CPC defeated its primary rival, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and assumed full control of mainland China by 1949.

By 1949, the Communist Party of China's ( CPC ) People's Liberation Army had largely defeated the Kuomintang ( KMT )' s National Revolutionary Army in the Chinese Civil War on the mainland.

In 1946, Rao was one of the CPC delegates to work with delegates of Kuomintang and U. S. on peace talks, with rank of Lieutenant General, many of his counterparts who got rank of Colonel General and General after they defeated Kuomintang in 1949 only got rank of Major General at that time, which could indicated Rao's appeal and importance to Mao Zedong.

A major split between the Nationalists and Communists occurred in 1927 ; and, under Chiang's leadership, the Nationalists fought a nation-wide civil war against the Communist Party of China ( CPC ).

By 1949, the CPC had established control over most of the country ( see Chinese Civil War ).

The Huaihai Campaign of late 1948 and early 1949 secured east-central China for the CPC.

As a result, shortly before his 50th birthday, Hu Jintao became the youngest member of the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, and the second youngest PSC member ever since the CPC took power in 1949.

In April 1949, after illusive peace talks between the CPC and the KMT were broken, Liu led his armies across the Yangtze River and conquered huge areas of Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, taking over Nanjing, the capital of the KMT.

The IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator or CPC was announced by IBM in May 1949.

Customer deliveries of the CPC began in late 1949, at which time more than 20 had been ordered by government agencies and laboratories and aircraft manufacturers.

The precursor of the modern MSS was the Central Department of Social Affairs ( CDSA ), the primary intelligence organ of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) before its accession to power in 1949.

After the establishment of the PRC in 1949, he was the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ( CPC )' s committee in Yunnan Province, vice secretary of Southwest bureau of CPC, vice secretary-general of CPC central committee, minister of No. 2, NO.

After the People's Republic of China was founded, at the invitation of the CPC, representatives of the CZGP attended the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC in 1949.

After the establishment of People's Republic of China in 1949, Wang was appointed as first Chinese Ambassador to Soviet Union, and then Under Secretary of Foreign Ministry. In 1951 Wang was appointed as Minister of External Communication Department of CPC. Although Wang got promotion again for being elected as Commissioner and Secretariat of Central Committee of CPC in the 1st Plenary Meeting of 8th National Congress of CPC in 1956 and survived longer in political life than his close friend Zhang Wentian, who was purged in the Lushan Meeting in 1959, he still could not survive the Cultural Revolution.

In 1949, with the Chinese Civil War turning decisively in the Communists ' ( CPC ) favour, the ROC government led by the Kuomintang ( KMT ) retreated to Taipei, in Taiwan, while the CPC proclaimed the PRC government in Beijing.

In 1949, the war turned decisively against the KMT and in favor of the CPC.

On October 1, 1949, the CPC proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.

Many observers from both within and outside of China have argued that the CPC has taken gradual steps towards democracy and transparency, hence arguing that it is best to give it time and room to evolve into a better government that is more responsive to its people rather than forcing an abrupt change with all the deleterious effects such a loss of stability might entail.

In 1936 Manchurian warlord and Chiang's former ally Zhang Xueliang decided to conspire with the CPC and kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek in Xi ' an to force an end to the conflict between KMT and CPC.

The alliance took place with salutary effects for the beleaguered CPC after relentless attacks by Chiang's forces.

According to Mao Zedong, Chiang's tolerance of the CPC in the KMT camp decreased as his power increased.

However, large campaigns and full scale confrontations between the CPC and Chiang's own troops were temporarily avoided.

But this received cold shoulders from Mao Zedong and his associates, who ruled CPC and greatly disagreed with Chiang's policies.

Chiang then invited Mao to Chongqing for peace talks, during which, Yan Xishan sent his armies to attack CPC territories in Shanxi under Chiang's authorisation.

#* Significance: First and only Party Congress held outside China ( due to Chiang's anti-CPC crackdown ); sanctioned creating armed forces controlled by CPC but still to be used " under the KMT flag "; Mao Zedong absent, stays in China at the CCP's Jinggangshan base.

Although nominally it exists alongside the United Front, a coalition of governing political parties, in practice, the CPC is the only party in the PRC, maintaining a unitary government and centralizing the state, military, and media.

The Communist Party of China comprises a single-party state form of government ; however, there are parties other than the CPC within China, which report to the United Front Department of the Communist Party of China and do not act as opposition or independent parties.

Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.

They are held in high esteem by the Beijing government because they fought on the side of the CPC against Chinese Nationalist rule during the Chinese Civil War.

The more than 80 million-member Communist Party of China ( CPC ) continues to dominate government.

The Chinese Civil War ( 1927 – 1950 ) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang ( KMT ), or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ), for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

The CPC and the left wing of the KMT had decided to move the seat of the KMT government from Guangzhou to Wuhan, where communist influence was strong.

In general, developments in the Second Sino-Japanese War were to the advantage of the CPC, as their guerilla war effort had won them popular support within the Japanese-occupied areas while the KMT's burden to defend China against main Japanese assaults due to its status as the legal government of China proved costly to Chiang Kai-shek and his troops.

The leader of Inner Mongolia during that time, as both regional CPC secretary and head of regional government, was Ulanhu.

On July 20, 1999, after three years of mounting tensions between the group and the government, the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) leadership initiated a nationwide crackdown and multifaceted propaganda campaign intended to eradicate the practice.

According to the proposal outlined by CPC General secretary and President Jiang Zemin in 1995, Taiwan would lose sovereignty and the right to self-determination, but would be permitted to keep its armed forces and to send a representative to be the " number two leader " in the PRC central government.

Since 1993, the President has also been the General Secretary of CPC who is generally responsible for establishing general policy and direction of the state and leaves responsibility for the implementation details to the Premier of the People's Republic of China, the head of government.

In recent years, there has been a division of responsibilities between the Premier and the General Secretary of CPC wherein the Premier is responsible for the technical details of implementing government policy while the General Secretary gathers the political support necessary for government policy.

Chinese law forbids the advocacy of independence for any part of its territory, as well as public challenge to CPC domination of the government of China.

At the time, China was divided internally between the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) which was under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the Nationalist government of China, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek.

The editorial increased tension between the government and protesters, and top CPC leaders argued about whether to revise it.

After the war ended the OVRA was officially disbanded, but a Decree issued on April 26, 1945, stated that the CPC should be maintained and " updated with all the information pertaining to anybody whose political activity is aimed at breaking the laws and regulations enacted by the democratic Government against neo-Fascism, anarchists who are by definition against any law and government, and political activists whose moral depravity and contempt of law could prompt them to instigate unrest or commit acts of terrorism ".

The Shanghai clique or Shanghai faction is the name given to an informal group of officials in the Communist Party of China, especially those who serve in the central government of the People's Republic of China or the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, who rose to prominence in connection to the Shanghai municipal administration under former CPC General secretary, President Jiang Zemin.

In the wake of the Munich Conference, the Prague government disbanded the CPC from September 1938 and the CPC went underground.