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The Information Office of the State Council of China on Thursday issued the country's first ever white paper on its political party system, systematically summarizing the political party system with Chinese characteristics.
Zhuang Congsheng, director of the Research Office under the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said rich experience had been accumulated for China's multi-party cooperation system over past decades and during the process, an increasing number of countries paid great attention to the democratic and political building of China.
"However, the fact that not too many people know well China's political party system has caused some misunderstanding. The white paper will help the international community learn the historical background, features, advantages, values and functions of China's multi-party cooperation system," said Zhuang. (Chinese Government's Official Web Portal news release)
White Paper on China's Political Party System full text.
Quote: "The political history and practice of modern and contemporary China prove that the construction of democratic politics in China must proceed from the country's basic conditions, and blind emulation of the political or party systems of any other country will never succeed; and that dictatorship will also end in failure, as it is against the law of historical development and the people's will."
More China political party system information:
Ruling party: The Communist Party of China
Other 8 political parties:
The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
The China Democratic League
The China National Democratic Construction Association
The China Association for Promoting Democracy
The Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party
China Zhi Gong Dang
The Jiu San Society
The Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League
Memberships of CPC: 73 million
Total memberships of all other 8 political parties: 700,000
From end of November to mid December, all the 8 small parties are going to have their national congresses where the new party leaderships will be elected, aiming at promoting younger leaders to catch up with the pace of the same action by CPC, and seeking more powerful official positions in the Chinese government. Most recent achievement is Mr. Wan Gang, Vice President of China Zhi Gong Dang, became Minister of China's Science and Technology Ministry earlier this year. He's the first non-CPC Minister in the past 35 years.