Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party

Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party 中国农工民主党
Abbreviation	CPWDP
Chairperson	He Wei
Founded	November 1927, formally on 9 August 1930 (1930-08-09) in Shanghai French Concession
Split from	Left-wing elements of the Kuomintang
Headquarters	55 Andingmenwai Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Newspaper	Qianjin Luntan ("Forum For Advancement") Medicine & Health Care Daily
Membership (2022)	192,000
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics[1][2]
National People's Congress (14th)	60 / 2,977
NPC Standing Committee	5 / 175
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference	45 / 544 (Seats for political parties)
Website
www.ngd.org.cn
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Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中国农工民主党
Traditional Chinese	中國農工民主黨
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Nónggōng Mínzhǔdǎng Wade–Giles Chung-kuo Nung-kung Min-chu-tang
Abbreviation
Simplified Chinese	农工党
Traditional Chinese	農工黨
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Nónggōngdǎng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོ་ཞིང་བཟོ་དམངས་གཙོ་ཏང
Transcriptions Wylie krung go zhing bzo dmangs gtso tang
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghgoz Nungzgungh Minzcuj Danj
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дундад улсын тариачны-ажилчин ардчилсан нам
Mongolian script	ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠲᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠴᠢᠨ ᠤ ᠠᠵᠢᠯᠴᠢᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠨᠠᠮ
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو دېھقان-ئىشچىلار دېموكراتىك پارتىيىسى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Junggo déhqan-ishchilar démokratik partiyisi Yengi Yeziⱪ Junggo déhqan-ishchilar démokratik partiyisi
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠨᠣᠩᡬᠣᠩᡩᠠᠩ
Romanization	Nongg'ongdang

The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (CPWDP) is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party. The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. It is the fifth-ranking minor party in China.^[3] The current chairman is He Wei.

History

The party had its origins in the collapse of the First United Front when they first met in November 1927. Its original members were left-wing Nationalists and expelled Communists which called themselves the "Provisional Action Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party" or "Third Party" (despite the name, the Young China Party was third largest in the late 1920s–40s).

The party was officially founded in the Shanghai French Concession on 9 August 1930,^[1] leading it to become a cohesive entity under Deng Yanda, who organized it under democratic centralism like both the Nationalists and Communists. Deng was secretly executed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1931 and the party went underground.

In 1933, the party, now led by Huang Qixiang, joined with the short-lived "Productive People's Party" in starting the failed People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China. In 1935, they renamed themselves in to the "Chinese Action Committee for National Liberation". It was one of the founding parties of the China Democratic League. Its leaders renamed the party in February 1947 to its current name.

Organization

In June 2022, the party had organizations in 30 province-level administrative divisions throughout China.^[4]

The CPWDP publishes the newspapers Qianjin Luntan ("Forum For Advancement")^[5] and Medicine & Health Care Daily.^[6]

Composition

The CPWDP is made up of members who mostly work in the fields of public health, medicine, and associated fields in science and technology.^[7] As of June 2022^[update], it has a membership of 192,000.^[4]

Chairpersons

1. Deng Yanda (1930–1931)
2. Huang Qixiang (1931–1938)
3. Zhang Bojun (1938–1958)
4. Ji Fang (1958–1987)
5. Zhou Gucheng (1987–1988)
6. Lu Jiaxi (1988–1997)
7. Jiang Zhenghua (1997–2007)
8. Sang Guowei (2007–2012)
9. Chen Zhu (2012–2022)^[8]
10. He Wei (2022–present)^[9]

Notable members

• Jin Jingzhe (born 1963), Chinese physician and delegate to the National People's Congress

References

1. "中国农工民主党章程（第十五次全国代表大会通过）_历次党章_中国农工民主党". www.ngd.org.cn. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
2. "中国农工民主党党章（第四次全国干部会议通过）_历次党章_中国农工民主党". www.ngd.org.cn. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
3. "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.
4. "新闻背景：中国农工民主党" [News background: Chinese Peasants and Workers Party]. Xinhua News Agency. 7 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
5. "党刊撷英_中国农工民主党". www.ngd.org.cn. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
6. "《医药养生保健报》唯一官网——医药健康网". www.fv88.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
7. Benewick, Robert; Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk (2009). The State of China Atlas: Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy (1 ed.). University of California Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-520-25610-1. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctv1xxv63. OCLC 948690686.
8. "本届领导_中国农工民主党". www.ngd.org.cn. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
9. "He Wei elected Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party chairman-Xinhua". Xinhua. Retrieved 9 December 2022.

External links

• Official website (in Chinese)