Institute of Party History and Literature

The Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会党史和文献研究院), also known as the Central Institute of Party History and Literature, is a school directly under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It is mainly responsible for studying the basic theory of Marxism, the sinicization of Marxism and its main representatives, studying Xi Jinping Thought, studying the history of the CCP, editing and compiling important documents of Marxist classical writers and works of major leaders, and collecting and sorting out important documents of the party history. The institute was established in 2018 from the merger of three prior bodies.