thumb|upright=0.95|left|Chinese communists celebrate Joseph Stalin's birthday, 1949. Mao proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) before a massive crowd at Tiananmen Square on 1 October 1949. The CCP headed the Central People's Government. From this time through the 1980s, top leaders of the CCP (such as Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping) were largely the same military leaders prior to the PRC's founding. As a result, informal personal ties between political and military leaders dominated civil-military relations.
thumb|upright=0.95|left|Chinese communists celebrate Joseph Stalin's birthday, 1949. Mao proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) before a massive crowd at Tiananmen Square on 1 October 1949 The CCP headed the Central People's Government. From this time through the 1980s, top leaders of the CCP (such as Mao Zedong Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping) were largely the same milita,ry .leaders prior to the PRC's founding. As a result, informal personal ties between political and military leaders dominated civil-military relations.