China Zhi Gong Dang, founded in October 1925, currently has nearly 20,000 members. Most of them are returned overseas Chinese, relatives of overseas Chinese, and representative individuals and specialists and scholars with overseas connections. The current Central Committee chairman is Luo Haocai.
Jiusan Society, founded in December 1944, currently has nearly 100,000 members. They are mostly high- and medium-level intellectuals working in science and technology, culture and education, or public health. The current Central Committee chairman is Han Qide.
Taiwan Democratic Self-government League, founded in November 1947, has more than 2,100 members who are for the most part people born or with family roots inTaiwancurrently residing on the mainland. The current Central Presidium chairman is Lin Wenyi.
Jiusan Society
The Jiusan Society is an officially recognized political party inChina. First established atChongqingin 1944 as the Democracy and Science Forum, this organization changed its name to Jiusan or September 3 to commemorate Japanese surrender in 1945, and then became a formal political party on May 4 of the following year. Its political stand was to carry on the tradition of democracy and science, oppose the civil war and practice democratic politics. It is known as a party comprised primarily of intellectuals. The present program of Jiusan Society stipulates that organizationally, the party draws members from representatives of middle and senior level intellectuals in the fields of science, technology, higher education and medicine.
In September 1949, representatives of Jiusan Society participated in the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC at which the Common Program was adopted as the provisional constitution, and the Central People's Government was elected and founded, hence the founding of the People's Republic ofChina.
After the founding of the PRC, Jiusan Society solemnly declared: It accepts the leadership of the CPC and takes the Common Program as its political program. Since then, Jiusan Society as a democratic party has actively participated in governmental and political affairs.
Jiusan Society held its third and fourth national congress respectively in October 1979 and December 1983, deciding that it should focus on economic construction and devote itself to developing and improving the established multi-party cooperation led by the CPC and political consultative system, continually participate in government and political affairs and abide by the principle of coexisting over a long period of time, engaging in mutual supervision, showing utter devotion to each other, and sharing honor and disgrace, weal and woe with the CPC.
Jiusan Society has played an increasingly important role in government and social affairs and economic construction such as safeguarding legitimate rights and interests of its members, helping CPC and government to adopt policies regarding intellectuals. Jiusan Society has made great contributions to the modernization drive in the past years.
Jiusan Society now has a membership of 100,000. The successive chairpersons of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society are Xu Deheng and Zhou Peiyuan. Its present chairman is Han Qide.
Taiwan Democratic Self-government League
Taiwan Democratic Self-government League was established inHong KongonNovember 12, 1947. At the time it was a political organization ofTaiwanresidents which was founded and existed outsideTaiwanProvince, sought to become free from the rule of the Kuomintang, implement democracy and regional self-government. In March 1949, the league moved its headquarters fromHong KongtoBeijing.
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