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 ChinaZhi Gong Dang

Initiated by the American Zhi Gong Zong Tang, an organization of overseas Chinese, China Zhi Gong Dang was founded inSan Franciscoin October 1925 by overseas Chinese organizations inNorth America. Its Second Congress was held inHong Kongin 1931, when it decided to establish the headquarters of China Zhi Gong Dang there.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China Zhi Gong Dang was devoted to mobilizing the broad masses of overseas Chinese to actively support the just cause in the motherland. China Zhi Gong Dang called its Third Congress inHong Kongin May 1947. The meeting published a declaration, exposing and condemning the Kuomintang for launching civil war and continuing dictatorial rule, and calling for struggles for political democracy. On the invitation of the CPC in September1949, China Zhi Gong Dang sent its representatives to participate in the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). It was at this meeting that the "Common Program of the CPPCC" which served as a provisional constitution was adopted. China Zhi Gong Dang made its contributions to the founding of the People's Republic ofChina.

The headquarters of the China Zhi Gong Dang was moved fromHong KongtoGuangzhouin 1950 and then toBeijingin 1953. China Zhi Gong Dang held its seventh and eighth 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 the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation.

According to its new constitution passed at its ninth congress in December 1988, the party would uphold the banners of patriotism and socialism, unite all members and overseas Chinese it connects, carry out the glorious tradition of patriotism to strive for the achievement of the great cause of reunification and rejuvenation of the motherland.

Members of China Zhi Gong Dang are mainly returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and experts, scholars and representative figures with overseas relations. It currently has nearly 20,000 members.

The successive chairpersons of the Central Committee of China Zhi Gong Dang are Chen Qiyou, Huang Dingchen and Dong Yinchu. Its present chairman is Luo Haocai.