As the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) approaches, the International Communication Office of the CPC Central Committee announced Monday it will hold a series of press conferences for domestic and international media on the Party's history and development as part of the celebration.

The International Communication Office will also invite officials from departments and institutions, such as the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, to the press conferences, according to a statement by the office on Monday.

Officials from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, the Party History Research Center of the CPC Central Committee and the Party Literature Research Center of the CPC Central Committee will be invited to the press conferences as well, the statement said.

Topics will include the CPC's organization and ideology, efforts to educate and train officials and cadres, history and development, as well as its theoretical research, the statement said.

The office also plans to invite journalists to Yan'an city in northwest Shaanxi Province to visit historic sites and discuss CPC training activities. Yan'an was the CPC headquarters and the center of the communist revolution from 1935 to 1948.

In addition, province-level Party organizations in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangxi, Shaanxi and Xinjiang will also hold press conferences and organize news coverage trips as part of the CPC's 90th anniversary that will be observed on July 1.

(Xinhua News Agency May 30, 2011)