Chinese Communist party celebrates 100th anniversary – in pictures

Since its origins in Shanghai in 1921, the Chinese communist party has grown to be one of the world's most powerful political parties. It celebrated its 100th birthday on 1 July.

President Xi Jinping told a crowd of 70,000 in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that the era of China being bullied was gone forever' and the country would not allow sanctimonious preaching' from foreign forces. Anyone who tried will find themselves on a collision course with a steel wall forged by 1.4 billion people'