China Association for Promoting Democracy
China Association for Promoting Democracy 中国民主促进会 | |
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Chairperson | Cai Dafeng |
Founded | 30 December 1945 |
Headquarters | Beijing |
Newspaper | Democracy Monthly |
Membership (2023) | 200,000 |
Ideology | Socialism with Chinese characteristics |
National People's Congress (14th) | 54 / 2,977 |
NPC Standing Committee | 7 / 175 |
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | 45 / 544 (Seats for political parties) |
Website | |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中国民主促进会 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中國民主促進會 | ||||||
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Abbreviation | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 民进 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 民進 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ཀྲུང་གོ་དམངས་གཙོ་ཡར་སྐུལ་ལྷན་ཚོགས | ||||||
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Zhuang name | |||||||
Zhuang | Cunghgoz Minzcuj Coicaenh Hoih | ||||||
Mongolian name | |||||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | Дундад улсын ардчилал ийнор ахиулах эвлэл | ||||||
Mongolian script | ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠯ ᠡᠶᠢᠨᠣᠷ ᠠᠬᠢᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ ᠡᠪᠯᠡᠯ | ||||||
Uyghur name | |||||||
Uyghur | جۇڭگو دېموكراتىيىنى ئىلگىرى سۈرۈش جەمئىيىتى | ||||||
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Manchu name | |||||||
Manchu script | ᠮᡳᠨᠵᡳᠨ | ||||||
Romanization | Minjin |
The China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD) is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.
It was formed on 30 December 1945, and mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media. The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 58 seats in the National People's Congress, 7 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 45 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its current chairman is Cai Dafeng.
History
The party was formed on 30 December 1945 in Shanghai.[1][2]
Organization
According to its constitution, the CAPD is officially committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.[3] The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor party in China.[4] The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[5]
The highest body of the CAPD officially is the National Congress, which is held every five years. The 13th National Congress, held in December 2022, was the most recently held Party Congress. The National Congress elects the Central Committee of the CAPD.[3] At the end of 2023, the party had 29 province-level, 274 prefecture-level city, 54 county-level and 9,350 grassroot level organizations.[6] The CAPD publishes a newspaper titled Democracy Monthly (民主).[7]
Composition
The party mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media.[1] At the end of 2023, the CAPD had more than 200,000 members, of which 70.8 were middle- and high-level intellectuals in the fields of education, culture, publishing, media, and science and technology.[6]
Chairpersons
No. | Chairperson | Took office | Left office | Ref. | |
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1 | Ma Xulun
马叙伦 |
April 1950 | July 1966 | [citation needed] | |
2 | Zhou Jianren
周培源 |
October 1979 | July 1984 | [citation needed] | |
3 | Ye Shengtao
叶圣陶 |
December 1984 | June 1987 | [citation needed] | |
4 | Lei Jieqiong
雷洁琼 |
June 1987 | December 2, 1997 | [citation needed] | |
5 | Xu Jialu
许嘉璐 |
December 1997 | December 2007 | [citation needed] | |
6 | Yan Junqi
严隽琪 |
December 2007 | December 2017 | [citation needed] | |
7 | Cai Dafeng
蔡达峰 |
December 6, 2017 | Incumbent | [8] |
References
- ^ a b Benewick, Robert; Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk (2009). The State of China Atlas: Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy (1st ed.). University of California Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-520-25610-1. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctv1xxv63. OCLC 948690686.
- ^ "新闻背景:中国民主促进会" [News background: China Association for Promoting Democracy]. Xinhua News Agency. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ^ a b "中国民主促进会章程" [Constitution of the China Association for Promoting Democracy]. China Association for Promoting Democracy. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "我国八个民主党派排序考". Lishui Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. 9 December 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Liao, Xingmiu; Tsai, Wen-Hsuan (2019). "Clientelistic State Corporatism: The United Front Model of "Pairing-Up" in the Xi Jinping Era". China Review. 19 (1): 31–56. ISSN 1680-2012. JSTOR 26603249.
- ^ a b "中国民主促进会简介" [Introduction to the China Association for Promoting Democracy]. China Association for Promoting Democracy. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ "民主杂志社". www.mj.org.cn. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ "蔡达峰任民进中央主席" (in Chinese). 凤凰网. 6 December 2017. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.