Two of China's eight non-Communist parties, the Jiu San (September 3) Society and the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (CPWDP), elected their new central leadership here Sunday.
At the closing session of the five-day 13th CPWDP National Congress, a 190-member new Central Committee was elected. At the ensuing first plenum of the 13th CPWDP Central Committee, Jiang Zhenghua was re-elected president of the central committee.
The plenum also elected 10 vice president and 43 executive members of the central committee.
Jiang, 65, is a world-renowned demographer and served as vice-minister in charge of the State Family Planning Commission from 1991 to 1997. He was first elected chairman of the CPWDP Central Committee in 1997.
The Jiu San Society also concluded its six-day Eighth National Congress on Sunday, electing Han Qide as chairman of the party's new 225-member Central Committee.
The Party's first Central Committee plenum also elected eight vice chairmen and 45 executive members of the new committee.
Han, 57, graduated from Shanghai No.1 Medical College in 1968 and then worked for 10 years in northwest China's Shaanxi province as a "bare-foot doctor", a special term for those who answered Mao Zedong's call to go to the countryside and provide free medical service. He was a visiting scholar to the United States in the 1980s and elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Both Jiang and Han vowed that their parties would closely cooperate with the Communist Party of China (CPC) and strive to build a more affluent society in China, a goal put forward at the recently concluded 16th CPC National Congress.
Founded in 1930 and in 1944 respectively, the CPWDP and the Jiu San Society now have some 80,000 members each across China.
(Xinhua News Agency December 9, 2002)
