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What are China's Democratic Parties?

China's democratic parties refer to the eight parties on the Chinese mainland that are fully participating in China's government decision-making process apart from the Communist Party of China (CPC), the country's ruling party. These democratic parties are: the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK, composed of former Chinese Kuomintang democrats and other compatriots), China Democratic League (CDL, composed of senior and higher intellectuals from the fields of culture, education, and science and technology), China Democratic National Construction Association (CDNCA, composed of experts and scholars from the economic circles), China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD, composed of intellectuals working in the educational and cultural publishing sectors), China Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (CPWDP, composed of intellectuals in the medical and health sectors), China Zhi Gong Dang (CZGD, composed of returned overseas Chinese, relatives of overseas Chinese, and representative individuals and scholars with overseas connections), Jiu San Society (JSS, composed of senior and higher intellectuals from the fields of science and technology), and the Taiwan Democratic Self-government League (TSL, composed of people born or with family roots in Taiwan province currently residing on the mainland ).

The Chinese democratic parties are not opposition parties or non-ruling parties but friendly parties of the CPC, which are fully involved in the government decision-making process. China's democratic parties are members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the nation's patriotic united front under the leadership of the CPC. They cooperate with the CPC via political consultation and democratic supervision. They fully participate in the state administration, and in decision-making of state policies and selection of state leaders through consultation, and also in the instituting and implementation of state policies, laws and regulations.

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