PART VI China Association for Promoting Democracy (Min Jin)
Many people believe that in China, just 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)
As in European system political parties are found in main parliaments and other levels of power in China
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, 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 VI China Association for Promoting Democracy (known as Min Jin)
The China Democracy Promotion Association is the fourth democratic party in the People’s Republic of China. It is now the third largest party in the National People’s Congress.
Founded in 1945, Min Jin is mainly engaged in high- and intermediate-level intellectuals in the fields of education, culture, publishing, media and related science and technology.
It is a participating party that cooperates with the Communist Party of China.
The early members of the Democratic Progressive Movement were mostly democrats. The current members are mainly senior and intermediate intellectuals engaged in education, culture, and publishing.
As of the end of 2019, China Democracy Progress had a total of 145,000 members.
The first president of China Democracy Promotion Association was
Ma Xulun, 27 April 1885 – 4 May 1970, he was a Chinese politician, activist, and linguist . He was one of the co-founders of the China Association for Promoting Democracy.
The current president is Cai Dafeng (June 1960 -), male, Han nationality, native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, architect and political figure of the People’s Republic of China. The current vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and chairman of the Democratic Progressive Central Committee.
He has been engaged in the research and restoration of ancient Chinese buildings for a long time, and has presided over the restoration of many national key cultural relics protection units, including the famous Shanghai Yu Garden and Zhenru Temple.
