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Xi-era CCP
2012– · China · Communist / State Capitalist · Held state power · coding confidence high
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Party leadership over everything, national rejuvenation, common prosperity, and discipline of private capital.
Economic model
Large private sector operating under party committees, dominant state banks and champions, industrial policy, tightened control of tech and property.
Organisation of powers
Term limits abolished, party supremacy written into corporate governance, comprehensive surveillance, no independent judiciary.
Reading note
Moved back toward the collective pole on economics while pushing authority and centralisation higher than at any time since Mao.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −02
Most output and employment are private, but party committees sit inside firms and strategic sectors are state-held. Coded just left of centre.
- Comparative datasetPrivate firms account for the large majority of urban employment and of new job creation.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2018 company law revision required party organisations inside firms above a size threshold.
- Documented act or statuteRegulatory campaigns from 2020 against technology, tutoring and property sectors reversed part of the earlier market movement.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +08
A pronounced traditionalist turn: Confucian revival, birth promotion, and campaigns against what the party calls effeminate culture.
- Documented act or statuteThe one-child policy was replaced by a three-child policy with pronatalist incentives from 2021.
- Documented act or statuteBroadcast regulations from 2021 restricted celebrity culture, gaming hours for minors and private tutoring.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +10
At the ceiling. Term limits removed, no independent judiciary, no lawful opposition, comprehensive surveillance.
- Documented act or statuteThe presidential two-term limit was removed from the constitution in 2018.
- Documented act or statuteNo political party other than the CCP and its eight sanctioned satellites may contest power.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +10
At the ceiling: village elections curtailed, Hong Kong's separate system dismantled, autonomy in Xinjiang and Tibet nominal.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2020 national security law and 2021 electoral overhaul ended Hong Kong's separate political system.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +07
Coded high on documented policy toward designated minorities.
- Documented act or statuteMass internment, birth-rate suppression and forced labour transfer in Xinjiang are documented by UN human rights reporting.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −02
Coded negative: the regime is now the established order and its stated priority is stability.
- Comparative dataset'Stability maintenance' spending has exceeded the published defence budget in several years.
How it moved
Positions are recorded at dated anchor points tied to a documented moment — a programme adopted, a government formed, a reversal. Nothing is interpolated between them, because nothing is known between them. Figures in amber moved by two points or more from the previous anchor.
| Anchor | EC | CU | AU | SC | ID | CH | What it is tied to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | −09 | −02 | +10 | +09 | +03 | +10 | Land reform and the nationalisation of industry; the marriage law of 1950. |
| 1966 | −10 | −02 | +10 | +09 | +04 | +10 | Communes, no private plots, and the Cultural Revolution turned against the party's own institutions. |
| 1980 | −04 | +04 | +09 | +08 | +05 | −03 | Household responsibility system restores farming decisions to families; special economic zones open. |
| 2002 | +01 | +04 | +09 | +08 | +05 | −04 | WTO accession; private property recognised in the constitution in 2004. |
| 2024 | −02 | +08 | +10 | +10 | +07 | −02 | Party committees written into corporate governance; regulatory campaigns from 2020; term limits removed in 2018. |
Net movement, 1949 to 2024: EC +7, CU +10, ID +4, CH −12. A trajectory records where an organisation has been. It does not forecast, and several organisations in this corpus moved a long way with no warning available in advance.
Where it came from, and what came after
- is a continuation ofDeng-era CCP
Continuous, with term limits removed in 2018 and the economic direction partly reversed.
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Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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