Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party

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. The current chairman is He Wei.

Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party
中国农工民主党
AbbreviationCPWDP
ChairpersonHe Wei
FoundedNovember 1927, formally on 9 August 1930 (1930-08-09) in Shanghai French Concession[1]
Split fromLeft-wing elements of the Kuomintang
Headquarters55 Andingmenwai Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
NewspaperQianjin Luntan ("Forum For Advancement")[2]
Medicine & Health Care Daily[3]
Membership (2019)177,943[4]
IdeologyChinese socialism[1][5]
National People's Congress (14th)
54 / 2,980
NPC Standing Committee
7 / 175
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
45 / 544
(Seats for political parties)
State Administrations and Bureaus under ministry-level agencies
2 / 17
Website
www.ngd.org.cn
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
Abbreviation
Chinese农工党
Tibetan name
Tibetanཀྲུང་གོ་ཞིང་བཟོ་དམངས་གཙོ་ཏང
Zhuang name
ZhuangCunghgoz Nungzgungh Minzcuj Danj
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicДундад улсын тариачны-ажилчин ардчилсан нам
Mongolian scriptᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ
ᠲᠠᠷᠢᠶᠠᠴᠢᠨ ᠤ ᠠᠵᠢᠯᠴᠢᠨ
ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠨᠠᠮ
Uyghur name
Uyghurجۇڭگو دېھقان-ئىشچىلار دېموكراتىك پارتىيىسى‎
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᠨᠣᠩᡬᠣᠩᡩᠠᠩ
RomanizationNongg'ongdang

History

Foundation

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).

After August 1930, the party became 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.

Present

Currently, the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party comprises a membership of 144,000, most of whom work in the fields of public health, medicine, and associated fields in science and technology.[6]

Chairpersons
  1. Deng Yanda (邓演达) (1930–1931)
  2. Huang Qixiang (黄琪翔) (1931–1938)
  3. Zhang Bojun (章伯钧) (1938–1958)
  4. Ji Fang (季方) (1958–1987)
  5. Zhou Gucheng (周谷城) (1987–1988)
  6. Lu Jiaxi (卢嘉锡) (1988–1997)
  7. Jiang Zhenghua (蒋正华) (1997–2007)
  8. Sang Guowei (桑国卫) (2007–2012)
  9. Chen Zhu (陈竺) (2012–2022)[7]
  10. He Wei (何维) (2022–present)[8]

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. "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.
  3. "《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.
  4. "简介_中国农工民主党". www.ngd.org.cn. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  5. "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.
  6. 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.
  7. "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.
  8. "He Wei elected Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party chairman-Xinhua". Xinhua. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
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