Besides the CPC, there are another eight political parties: the
China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, the China
Democratic League, the China Democratic National Construction
Association, the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy,
the Chinese Peasants and Workers' Democratic Party, the China Zhi
Gong Dang, the Jiusan Society, and the Taiwan Democratic
Self-government League. They support the CPC leadership
politically, which was the historic choice they made during the
long years when they cooperated and fought side by side with the
CPC. These democratic parties enjoy political freedom,
organizational independence and lawful equality within the fixed
scope of the Constitution. The basic principle of the cooperation
between the CPC and the other parties is long-term coexistence,
mutual supervision, sincere treatment with each other and the
sharing of weal and woe.
The democratic parties are neither parties out of office nor
opposition parties. They are parties fully participating in the
political life of the nation. At present, all the standing
committees of the people's congresses, the committees of the CPPCC,
government organs at all levels, as well as economic, cultural,
educational, scientific and technology and other departments have
members of the democratic parties as leaders. For instance, the
current chairpersons of the eight democratic parties' central
committees hold vice-chairperson posts of the NPC Standing
Committee and the CPPCC National Committee. The ranks of the
democratic parties have also swelled, and today the total number of
members of the democratic parties has reached over 600,000. All the
provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the
Central Government, and large and medium cities now have local and
grass-roots organizations of the democratic parties.?
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The Eight Democratic Parties
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Name
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Date of Foundation
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Main Constituents
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Chairperson of Central
Committee
|
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China Revolutionary Committee of the
Kuomintang
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January 1948
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Former Kuomintang members and people?having
historical connections with the Kuomintang
|
He Luli
|
|
China Democratic League
|
October 1941
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Higher and mid-level intellectuals
|
Ding Shisun
|
|
China Democratic National Construction
Association
|
December 1945
|
Specialists,scholars and other people in the
economic field
|
Cheng Siwei
|
|
China Association for the Promotion of
Democracy
|
December 1945
|
Intellectuals working in educational,cultural,
scientific, publishing and other fields
|
Xu Jialu
|
|
Chinese Peasants and Workers' Democratic
Party
|
August 1930
|
Higher and mid-level intellectuals in medical,
cultural, educational, and science and technology fields
|
Jiang Zhenghua
|
|
China Zhi Gong Dang
|
October 1925
|
Returned overseas Chinese, relatives of overseas
Chinese, and representative individuals and specialists and
scholars with overseas connections
|
Luo Haocai
|
|
Jiusan Society
|
December 1944
|
Higher and mid-level intellectuals working in
science and technology,
culture, education, and public health
|
Han Qide
|
|
Taiwan Democratic Self-government League
|
November 1947
|
People born or with family roots in
Taiwan?Province currently?residing on the mainland
|
Zhang Kehui
|