
With China’s leadership change underway, the GPS quiz this week tests readers’ knowledge of how the Communist Party picks its leaders.
When was the very first Chinese Communist Party Congress held? Who is expected to be named the next party leader, replacing Hu Jintao? Take our weekly quick to find out.


The 6th Party Congress (1928) was held in Moscow because of the civil war in China. The communists were purged by Chang Kai Shek's Kuomintang, which led to the massacres in Shanghai and Nanking in April 1927. The communists led by Mao had close ties to the Soviet Union.
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