'China Celebrates Communist Party's 100th Anniversary in EXTRAVAGANT Ceremony'<br /><br />China's ruling communist party celebrated its 100th anniversary on Thursday with a lavish ceremony in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing.<br /><br />Thousands of military personnel and citizens attended the event.<br /><br />President Xi Jinping addressed the crowds and congratulated the country's 92 million party members.<br /><br />He said the goal for the party's second century would be to develop the country into a "modern socialist power”.<br /><br />The CCP was founded in 1921 by a group of Chinese revolutionaries. <br /><br />The party has ruled China single-handedly for more than 70 years since Mao Zedong led them to power in 1949.<br /><br />Resistance to communist rule is fiercely suppressed, as the world saw in 1989 - the Tiananmen Square Massacre saw a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.<br /><br />Thousands are thought to have been killed by government troops.<br /><br />The party is also accused of human rights abuses against the minority Uighur population. <br /><br />China is one of a small number of communist countries left in the world despite having the world’s second largest economy.<br /><br />#China #CCP #ChineseComunnistParty
