
Here are the key dates in China since the founding of the Communist Party (CCP) which has grown into one of the world's most powerful political organizations as brought by AFP.
- July 1921: Founded in secret -
In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai covertly establish the party and start to set up labor unions in China's cities.