China Association for Promoting Democracy

The China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD) is one of the eight minor so-called "democratic parties" in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.

China Association for Promoting Democracy 中国民主促进会
Chairperson	Cai Dafeng
Founded	30 December 1945; 79 years ago (1945-12-30)
Headquarters	Beijing
Newspaper	Democracy Monthly
Membership (2024)	200,000
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics
National People's Congress (14th)	54 / 2,977
NPC Standing Committee	7 / 175
CPPCC National Committee (14th)	45 / 544 (Seats for political parties)
Website
www.mj.org.cn
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China Association for Promoting Democracy
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	中国民主促进会
Traditional Chinese	中國民主促進會
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Cùjìnhuì
Abbreviation
Simplified Chinese	民进
Traditional Chinese	民進
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mínjìn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོ་དམངས་གཙོ་ཡར་སྐུལ་ལྷན་ཚོགས
Transcriptions Wylie krung go dmangs gtso yar skul lhan tshogs
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghgoz Minzcuj Coicaenh Hoih
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дундад улсын ардчилал ийнор ахиулах эвлэл
Mongolian script	ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠯ ᠡᠶᠢᠨᠣᠷ ᠠᠬᠢᠭᠤᠯᠬᠤ ᠡᠪᠯᠡᠯ
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو دېموكراتىيىنى ئىلگىرى سۈرۈش جەمئىيىتى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Junggo démokratiyini ilgiri sürüsh jemiyiti Yengi Yeziⱪ Junggo démokratiyini ilgiri sürüsh jemiyiti
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠮᡳᠨᠵᡳᠨ
Romanization	Minjin

It was formed on 30 December 1945, and mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media. The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 58 seats in the National People's Congress, 7 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 45 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its current chairman is Cai Dafeng.

History

The party was formed on 30 December 1945 in Shanghai.^[1][2]

Organization

According to its constitution, the CAPD is officially committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.^[3] The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor democratic party in China.^[4] The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[5]

The highest body of the CAPD officially is the National Congress, which is held every five years. The 13th National Congress, held in December 2022, was the most recently held Party Congress. The National Congress elects the Central Committee of the CAPD.^[3] At the end of 2024, the party had 29 province-level, 274 prefecture-level city, 54 county-level and 9,442 grassroot level organizations.^[6] The CAPD publishes a newspaper titled Democracy Monthly (民主).^[7]

Composition

The party mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media.^[1] At the end of 2024, the CAPD had more than 200,000 members, of which 71.4 were middle- and high-level intellectuals in the fields of education, culture, publishing, media, and science and technology.^[6]

Chairpersons

No.	Chairperson		Took office	Left office	Ref.
1		Ma Xulun 马叙伦	April 1950	July 1966	[citation needed]
2		Zhou Jianren 周培源	October 1979	July 1984	[citation needed]
3		Ye Shengtao 叶圣陶	December 1984	June 1987	[citation needed]
4		Lei Jieqiong 雷洁琼	June 1987	December 2, 1997	[citation needed]
5		Xu Jialu 许嘉璐	December 1997	December 2007	[citation needed]
6		Yan Junqi 严隽琪	December 2007	December 2017	[citation needed]
7		Cai Dafeng 蔡达峰	December 6, 2017	Incumbent	[8]