Representatives of Taiwan Democratic Self-government League participated in the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC in September 1949, at which the Common Program was adopted as the provisional constitution. After the founding of the PRC, Taiwan Democratic Self-government League has taken the Common Program as its political program, participated in government affairs and closely cooperated and mutually supervised with the CPC.
The League held its second and third congress in October 1979 and November 1983 respectively, at which it has shifted its focus on the socialist modernization drive. Ever since then, the League has devoted itself to economic construction, improvement of system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation, and the reunification of the motherland. The League always safeguards legitimate rights and interests of the Taiwan compatriots, maintains that China's sovereignty and territorial integrity bears no division, opposes two Chinas, one China' one Taiwan, and Independence of Taiwan, and opposes any foreign interference or aggression on Taiwan.
The seventh congress of Taiwan Democratic Self-government League was convened in December 2002. The congress approved the draft amendments to the constitution of the League; pointed out that reunification of the motherland is the country's main task in the new century, the most earnest wish of compatriots across the Taiwan Straits, and the bounden duty of Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League; and called for organizations at various levels to unite around the CPC Central Committee, and realize the ultimate goal of reunification and revitalization of China.
Taiwan Democratic Self-government League currently has more than 2,100 members who are for the most part people born or with family roots inTaiwancurrently residing on the mainland. The successive chairpersons of the Central Committee of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League are Xie Xuehong, Cai Xiao, Su Ziheng and Cai Zimin. Its present chairman is Lin Wenyi.
China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang was officially founded onJanuary 1, 1948. Its main constituents at the time were former Kuomintang members for democracy and other patriotic personages. Their political stand was to overthrow the dictatorial rule of the Kuomintang and realize independence, democracy and peace inChina.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937, the patriotic democratic members of the Kuomintang supported the National Anti-Japanese United Front initiated by the CPC and participated in patriotic democratic activities. As of 1943, two parts of them respectively planned to create the San Min Zhu Yi (Three People's Principles) Comrades' Federation and the Kuomintang Association for Promoting Democracy, to carry out anti-Japanese democratic activities. The San Min Zhu Yi Comrades' Federation held its First National Congress inChongqingin the autumn of 1945, and the Kuomintang Association for Promoting Democracy held its First National Congress inGuangzhouin spring of 1946, each making their political programs and constitutions and formally declaring their establishment. At the end of 1947, the two organizations joined together with democratic elements from among the Kuomintang to hold their First Conference inHong Kongand formally declared the inauguration of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang onJanuary 1, 1948. In November 1949, the two organizations, together with other patriotic democratic elements of the Kuomintang, called their Second Conference and have since operated as a single independent political party under the name of the China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang.
Representatives of China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang participated in the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC in September 1949, at which the Common Program was adopted as the provisional constitution. After the founding of the PRC, China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang has taken the Common Program as its political program, participated in government affairs and closely cooperated and mutually supervised with the CPC. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh CPC National Congress, China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang has conscientiously participated in consultations on important issues concerning the state and management of state affairs, and made important contributions toChina's socialist economic construction, and improvement of the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation.
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