Zhi Gong party

The Zhi Gong Party ( Chinese  中國致公黨  /  中国致公党 , Pinyin Zhōngguó Zhìgōngdǎng ) is one of a " democratic Eight parties and groups designated" organizations in the People's Republic of China .

history

The Zhi Gong party was founded in San Francisco in October 1925 , but the party headquarters moved to Hong Kong as early as 1926 . The party was led by former Kuomintang members Chen Jiongming and Tang Jiyao after it was founded . She campaigned for federalism and multi-party democracy in China. After the Manchurian crisis , the party was anti- Japanese and supported propaganda and boycotts against Japan. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941, it was almost completely dissolved.

At the third party congress in 1947, the party turned politically to the left. Since then she has been a mouthpiece for Chinese overseas . It retained this role even after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In April 2007, Wan Gang , vice chairman of the Zhi Gong Party, was appointed minister of technology of the People's Republic of China, making it the first non- Communist Party member since the 1950s .

Web links

• Official site (Chinese)
• Presentation of the party ( Memento of 9 August 2012 at the Internet Archive ) on the side of the Chinese government (English)