PART IV : ZHI GONG
Many people believe that in China, one political party rules everything. At the same time, a lot of people are curious to know how this great machine works, which runs a country as big as the whole of Europe and with 1.4 billion inhabitants.
In China there is also a Parliament which works much like ours. Its name is PCC : Political Consultative Conference whose standing committee is elected every 5 years. Not to be confused with NPC ( National People’s Congress), an other huge deliberative body ( next chapter)
In Chinese PCC members are selected in and represents every level of the society in all the country and also for Overseas Chinese. PCC includes the CCP, patriots without any party affiliation and 8 major parties.
We are going to introduce these 8 parties of the PCC, the majority of which are 90 years old.
- Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK)
- Nong Gong Dang Chinese Farmers & Workers Democratic Party
- China Democratic League (CDL)
- Zhi Gong Dang
- China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA or Min Jian)
- China Association for Promoting Democracy (known as Min Jin)
- JiuSan Society (literally known as Nine-Three Academic Society)
- Taiwan Democratic Self-Governing League (TDSL)
What are the powers of the PCC standing committee ? Mainly :
- participates in the state power
- participates in the negotiation of major national policies
- the election of national leaders- participates in the management of national affairs and the formulation and implementation of guidelines, policies, laws and regulations
- actively playing the role of democratic supervision for the democratization and scientific decision-making of the country
- Etc…
PCC body also consists of delegates from unions, federations, associations, nominally independent members and special committees.
PCC is chaired by a member of the politburo standing committee.
PART IV : ZHI GONG PARTY
The China Zhigong Party is a political party composed mainly of middle and upper-class people among the returned overseas Chinese, the relatives of overseas Chinese, and other representative persons with overseas relations. It is a party participating in Chinese politics.
The Chinese Zhi Gong Party was established in San Francisco in October 1925. China Zhi Gong Party has made its own contribution to fighting for national independence, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese, and the world anti-fascist war.
In May 1947, the China Zhi Gong Party held its third congress in Hong Kong, reorganized, and since then accepted the leadership of the Communist Party of China and cooperated with it. At present, the Zhi Gong Party has 48,000 members in as of Nov. 2015 and took 38 seats in the National Congress
First Prime Minister of China Zhi Gong Party
Chen Jiongming
Male, born in 1878, Cantonese
Participated in the Huanghuagang Uprising in 1911, served as the governor of Guangdong, governor of Guangdong and commander of the army.
In October 1925, the Chinese Zhi Gong Party was established and Chen Jiongming was elected as the first and second prime minister.
Wan Gang
Male, born in August 1952, returned overseas Chinese from Germany, Ph.D.
Former Technical Development Engineer of Audi AG
Former President of Tongji University
Current Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Chairman of the Zhi Gong Party Central Committee, Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology
