China National Democratic Construction Association

China National Democratic Construction Association 中国民主建国会 Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Jiànguó Huì
Chairperson	Hao Mingjin
Founded	16 December 1945; 78 years ago (1945-12-16)
Preceded by	Vocational Education Society Qianchuan Factory Federation
Headquarters	Beijing
Newspaper	Economic Affairs People's Information
Membership (2023)	228,318
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics
National People's Congress (14th)	44 / 2,977
NPC Standing Committee	4 / 175
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference	65 / 544 (Seats for political parties)
Website
www.cndca.org.cn
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China National Democratic Construction Association
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	中國民主建國會
Simplified Chinese	中国民主建国会
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Jiànguó Huì
Abbreviation
Chinese	民建
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mínjiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོ་དམངས་གཙོ་རྒྱལ་འཛུགས་ལྷན་ཚོགས
Transcriptions Wylie krung go dmangs gtso rgyal 'dzugs lhan tshogs
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghgoz Minzcuj Gengoz Vei
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дундад улсын ардчилал улс байгуулах эвлэл
Mongolian script	ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ ᠡᠪᠯᠡᠯ
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو دېموكراتىك دۆلەت قۇرۇش جەمئىيىتى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Junggo démokratik dölet qurush jemiyiti Yengi Yeziⱪ Junggo démokratik dölet qurush jemiyiti
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠮᡳᠨᠵᡳᠠᠨ
Romanization	Minjian

The headquarters of the Central Committee of the CNDCA

The China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA),^{[note 1]} also known by its Chinese abbreviation Minjian (民建), is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.

The CNDCA was founded in Chongqing on 16 December 1945. The party's members are mainly entrepreneurs and others in the fields of economics. It is the third-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 44 seats in the National People's Congress, 4 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 65 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The current chairman of CNDCA is Hao Mingjin.^{[citation needed]}

History

National Democratic Construction Association was founded in Chongqing on 16 December 1945 by the Vocational Education Society, a former member of the China Democratic League. In July 1952, it was renamed to the China National Democratic Construction Association.^[1]

Its vice chairperson Rong Yiren served as the vice president of China from 1993 to 1998.^{[citation needed]}

Organization

According to its constitution, the CNDCA is officially committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.^[2] It is the third-ranking minor party in China.^[3] The chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce has usually been a member of the CNDCA.^[4]

The highest body of the CNDCA officially is the National Congress, which is held every five years. The 12th National Congress, held in December 2022, was the most recently held Party Congress. The National Congress elects the Central Committee of the CNDCA.^[2] As of June 2023^[update], has organizations in 30 province-level administrative divisions throughout China.^[5][6] It publishes the newspapers Economic Affairs (经济界)^[7] and People's Information (民讯).^[8]

Composition

Members of the party are chiefly entrepreneurs from the building, manufacturing, construction, financial, or commercial industries in both private and state sectors, and others in the field of economics.^[9] As of June 2023^[update], the party has around 228,318 members, of whom 176,112 are from the economic sector, representing 77.2% of the total membership, 146,527 were from the business sector, representing 64.2% of the total membership, and 51,197 were from the private economy, representing 22.4% of the total membership.^[6]

Chairpersons

No.	Chairperson		Took office	Left office	Ref.
1		Huang Yanpei 黃炎培	16 December 1945	21 December 1965	^[citation needed]
–		Li Zhuchen 李烛尘 Acting	21 December 1965	7 October 1968	^[citation needed]
2		Hu Juewen 胡厥文	23 October 1979	December 1987	^[citation needed]
3		Sun Qimeng 吴阶平	December 1987	December 1996	^[citation needed]
4		Cheng Siwei 成思危	December 1996	December 2017	^[citation needed]
5		Chen Changzhi 陈昌智	14 December 2007	20 December 2017	^[citation needed]
6		Hao Mingjin 郝明金	20 December 2017	Incumbent	[10]

Notable members

• Mo Menchuan

Notes

1. sometimes translated as the China Democratic National Construction Association (CDNCA)

References

1. "中国民主建国会简介" [Introduction to China National Democratic Construction Association]. China National Democratic Construction Association. 30 November 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
2. "中国民主建国会章程（中国民主建国会第十二次全国代表大会部分修改， 2022年12月17日通过）" [Constitution of the China Democratic National Construction Association (Partially revised at the 12th National Congress of the China Democratic National Construction Association, adopted on 17 December 2022)]. China National Democratic Construction Association. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
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. "Decoding Chinese Politics". Asia Society. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
5. "新闻背景：中国民主建国会" [News background: China National Democratic Construction Association]. Xinhua News Agency. 16 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
6. "中国民主建国会简介" [Introduction to the China National Democratic Construction Association]. China National Democratic Construction Association. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
7. "经济界". www.cndca.org.cn. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
8. "民讯". www.cndca.org.cn. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
9. 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.
10. "领导活动集". www.cndca.org.cn. Archived from the original on 23 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

External links

• Official website