The Communist Party of China (CPC) is 100 years old this year, and Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, has called on the country to learn from the Party's history. Professor Wang Xinsong from the school of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, said Chinese politics inherits ideas from ancient Chinese civilization, Marxist theory and Chinese adaptions. "Serve the people" is a perfect manifestation of the CPC's ideological core.