The politics of the People's Republic of China takes places in a framework of a socialist republic run by a single party, the Communist Party of China. The
Chinese Communist Party assumed power in 1949 and has been in power in China
for over 63 years, and the communists then named their new regime the People’s
Republic of China. However, unlike the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the communist
party of China are willing to adapt which have helped lead to the constant
evolving of their political institutions and culture. Ideology matters more in China than in many other political
systems. As the Chinese Communist Party has sought to adapt itself to a
changing world, it has had to wrestle with ways to revise its ruling ideology
to allow the change necessary for its survival, without changing its ideology
so much as to undermine further its already tenuous justifications for
maintaining a permanent monopoly on power. The CCP waged a successful
revolution and established the People’s Republic of China with the promise that
it would help farmers and workers overthrow their “exploiters,” the landlords
and capitalists, and establish socialism and ultimately communism, in which all
property would be publicly owned, and all classes would cease to exist.
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