Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party

The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (CPWDP) is one of the eight minor democratic parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist 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
Political position	Left-wing
National People's Congress (14th)	60 / 2,977
NPC Standing Committee	5 / 175
CPPCC National Committee (14th)	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 party was officially founded in the Shanghai French Concession on 9 August 1930 by left-wing members of the Kuomintang. It is mainly made up of members who mostly work in the fields of public health, medicine, and associated fields in science and technology. It is the fifth-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 60 seats in the National People's Congress, 5 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 45 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The current chairman of CPWDP 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 Kuomintang members and expelled Communists which called themselves the "Provisional Action Committee of the Kuomintang" or "Third Party" (despite the name, the Young China Party was third largest in the late 1920s–40s).^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Organization

According to its constitution, the CPWDP is officially committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.^[1] It is the fifth-ranking minor democratic party in China.^[2]

The highest body of the CPWDP officially is the National Congress, which is held every five years. The 17th National Congress, held in December 2022, was the most recently held Party Congress. The National Congress elects the Central Committee of the CPWDP.^[1] In June 2022, the party had organizations in 30 province-level administrative divisions throughout China.^[3] The CPWDP publishes the newspapers Qianjin Luntan ("Forum For Advancement")^[4] and Medicine & Health Care Daily.^[5]

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.^[6] As of June 2022^[update], it has a membership of 192,000.^[3]

Chairpersons

The leader of the Party is officially called the Chairperson of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party. Between 9 August 1930 and 10 November 1935, the office was known as the Secretary-General of the Central Executive Committee of the Provisional Action Committee of the Kuomintang, which changed to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese National Liberation Action Committee on 10 November 1935, which changed to the General Contact Person of the Central Provisional Executive Committee of the Chinese National Liberation Action Committee in March 1938, which again changed and assumed its current name on 3 February 1947.^{[citation needed]}

No.	Chairperson		Took office	Left office	Ref.
1		Deng Yanda 邓演达	August 9, 1930	August 17, 1931	[citation needed]
2		Huang Qixiang 黃琪翔	August 17, 1931	March 1938	[citation needed]
3		Zhang Bojun 章伯钧	March 1938	December 10, 1958	[citation needed]
4		Ji Fang 季方	December 10, 1958	January 1987	[citation needed]
5		Zhou Gucheng 周谷城	January 1987	November 13, 1988	[citation needed]
6		Lu Jiaxi 卢嘉锡	November 13, 1988	November 1997	[citation needed]
7		Jiang Zhenghua 蒋正华	November 1997	December 11, 2007	[citation needed]
8		Sang Guowei 桑国卫	December 15, 2007	December 2012	[citation needed]
9		Chen Zhu 陈竺	December 2012	December 9, 2022	[7]
10		He Wei 何维	December 9, 2022	Incumbent	[8]

Electoral history

National People's Congress elections

Election year	Number of seats
2017–18	54 / 2,970
2022–23	60 / 2,977

Notable members

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