PART V : China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA)
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)2
- Nong Gong Dang Chinese Farmers & Workers Democratic Party
- China Democratic League (CDL)
- Zhi Gong Dang
- China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA, 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)
As in European system political parties are found in main parliaments and other levels of power in China
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 V : China National Democratic Construction Association (CNDCA)
Min Wang Jian Guo Hui, or Minjian (民建) is the third-ranked democratic party in the People’s Republic of China. This party is currently the ninth largest party of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China ( have 57 seats). There are 170,000 registered member in 2018.
The China Democratic National Construction Association was founded on December 16, 1945. It is a political party mainly composed of people from the economic circles and a participating party. The Chinese Communist Party exercises political leadership over the Democratic National Construction Association, but guarantees organizational independence and equal legal status, and must not interfere with the independence and daily affairs of democratic parties.
In the early days of the Democratic National Construction Association, members mostly came from senior figures in the cultural and educational circles and ethnic industrial and commercial people.
At present, its party members mainly come from business entrepreneurs in large and medium cities and middle and high-level people in the economic circle.
The founder is Huang Yanpei (黄炎培) (1945–1965)
Rong Yiren is the only Vice President of the People’s Republic of China from the party !
The currently chairman of CDNCA is Hao Mingjin (郝明金), 2017–present.
