The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China. The Communist Party of China is the sole governing party of China, permitting only eight other, subordinated parties to co-exist, those making up the United Front. It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. The party grew quickly, and by 1949 the CPC had driven the nationalist Kuomintang government from mainland China after the Chinese Civil War, thus leading to the