100 years on: How China’s Communist Party came to dominate tomorrow’s superpower
The Communist Party of China (CCP) was founded in 1921, holding its first congress in Shanghai, with the help of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during a turbulent period after the country had a decade earlier cast off 2,000 years of dynastic rule.
Here’s how the CCP came to dominate the world’s most populous country. Watch the full video report.