Beijing: The ruling communist party in China, who celebrated the 100th anniversary of Thursday, was marked by confidentiality in leading the world’s second largest economic power of the shadow.
Was established as an illegal Marxist underground movement in Shanghai Seabad ago, it was then defined by strict control of information, supervision and cleaning cleaning.
Here are five things the CCP does not like people to discuss: the party claims 95.1 million members, but a list of complete names is not published.
Far from straightforward to register, with a strict two-year application process that depends on candidates who have a clean personal history.
This is the second largest political party in the world, after BJP under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claims 180 million members.
From the latest numbers released by the CCP Organization Department, only 6.5 million members were workers and 25.8 million agricultural workers – compared to the majority of 41 million professional collars and 19 million retired cadres.
“At the highest party representative conference, we can see that it is pure political parties consisting of the bureaucrat class,” said Beijing-based political analyst Wu Qiang.
The CCP budget is not published, while the personal wealth of its leaders is a very sensitive topic.
CCP members contribute up to two percent of their income to party cash.
In 2016, a official journal reported that the total contribution amount for the previous year was 7.08 billion yuan ($ 1 billion).
But the contribution is only a small percentage of its income.
The party is in the head of the financial imperial and directly manages companies, hotels and factories, said Jean-Pierre Cabestan from the University of Baptist Hong Kong.
While salary – and allowances – from the leaders remain a black box.
Some foreign media outlets have suffered retribution to report the great and forbidden fate made by Chinese leaders and their families through favorable investments, often stored in a complicated tax or financial structure with obscured ownership.
BLOOMBERG 2012 investigation estimates that the XI Jinping president who is close to have billions of yuan worth assets.
Most foreign scholars from Chinese history estimate that between 40 and 70 million people in China have died as a result of party policy since the ruling in 1949.
This includes a variety of internal cleaning, Mao Zedong’s economic policy which caused tens of millions to die of hunger – repression at Tibet, the cultural revolution during the decades and suppression of Tiananmen 1989.
China has repeatedly faced allegations of forced organ harvesting from detention, and especially members of the Banned Falun Gong Spiritual Movement – Beijing allegations are always forced to deny.
Human rights groups said it was estimated that one million Uyghur and other minorities in Xinjiang had been rounded into internirate camps – which Beijing said was eradicating Islamic extremism – together with sterilization claims worn and forced labor.
Hundreds of thousands of activists, lawyers and advocates rights have been detained or arrested for years.
Under XI, the space for civil society has tightened.
More than one million officials have been punished under their severity about corruption, even though the critics say the campaign also serves as a cover to clean political rivals.
The crackdown in 2015 rounded hundreds of lawyers and temporary human rights activists, in Hong Kong, dozens had been charged under the sweeping national security laws who criminalized everything that was considered subversion.
The party is proud of sincere support – including those who have benefited from the economic boom of recent countries and young nationalist groups – but strict control over the media also cuts reports that signal criticism and control online discussions.
The CCP meeting includes a five-year congress, which usually ends with an almost round adoption of decisions.
High-level meetings from the strong 200 Central Committee took place behind closed doors, as well as the Political Bureau, Inner Cabinet.
Country television usually broadcasts officially approved readings.
Debate, if any, is not published.
“Hiding internal tension allows the CCP to serve steel facades to their enemies and Chinese people,” Cabestan explained.
The closed nature makes it the “biggest secret society in the world”, he said.