The Chinese Communist Party and Its State. Xi Jinping’s Conservative Turn
The Chinese Communist Party and Its State. Xi Jinping’s Conservative Turn

Author(s): Jakub Jakóbowski, Michał Bogusz
Subject(s): Economic policy, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Political behavior, Politics and society
Published by: OSW Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
Keywords: Chinese Communist Party; CCP; Xi Jinping; PRC’s state structures; economic policy; foreign and security policy;
Summary/Abstract: In accordance with the Leninist model, the total dominance of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over state structures is inscribed into the Chinese political system; the state structures’ sole purpose is to aid the Party to govern China effectively and guarantee the Party’s monopoly on power. The Party makes all personnel decisions, controls domestic and foreign policy, wields direct control over the army, and has the prevailing influence on the economy through the state-owned enterprises sector. It has no legal personality; it exists outside the state structures, in parallel to them, and also above them, acting as their binding agent, and also as the source of its cadres. The Party’s structures are also the place where decisions are taken; they also transmit those decisions’ into the complex and multi-level state structures of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The CCP thus plays the role of the state’s ‘nervous system’, and as such, there is no alternative to it within the PRC’s present political system.

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