China Association for Promoting Democracy

The party was formed on 30 December 1945 in Shanghai.{{Cite book |last=Benewick |first=Robert |title=The State of China Atlas: Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy |last2=Donald |first2=Stephanie Hemelryk |date=2009 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-25610-1 |edition=1st |pages=67 |jstor=10.1525/j.ctv1xxv63 |oclc=948690686}}{{Cite news |date=18 December 2022 |title=新闻背景：中国民主促进会 |trans-title=News background: China Association for Promoting Democracy |url=http://www.news.cn/2022-12/18/c_1129217070.htm |access-date=5 December 2023 |work=Xinhua News Agency |language=zh}} The majority of the founding members where before members of the Chinese Communist Party.

According to its constitution, the CAPD is officially committed to socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.{{cite web |date=19 December 2022 |title=中国民主促进会章程 |trans-title=Constitution of the China Association for Promoting Democracy |url=https://www.mj.org.cn/mjgk/mjzc/202301/t20230128_274108.htm |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=6 October 2024 |website=China Association for Promoting Democracy |language=zh}} The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor democratic party in China.{{Cite web |date=9 December 2012 |title=我国八个民主党派排序考 |url=http://mg.lishui.gov.cn/xxyd/tzlr/t20091202_635563.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304152135/http://mg.lishui.gov.cn/xxyd/tzlr/t20091202_635563.htm |archive-date=4 March 2014 |access-date=30 December 2022 |website=Lishui Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang |language=zh}} The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.{{Cite journal |last1=Liao |first1=Xingmiu |last2=Tsai |first2=Wen-Hsuan |date=2019 |title=Clientelistic State Corporatism: The United Front Model of "Pairing-Up" in the Xi Jinping Era |journal=China Review |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=31–56 |issn=1680-2012 |jstor=26603249}}

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. At the end of 2024, the party had 29 province-level, 274 prefecture-level city, 54 county-level and 9,442 grassroot level organizations. The CAPD publishes a newspaper titled Democracy Monthly ({{lang|zh|民主}}).{{cite web |title=民主杂志社 |url=http://www.mj.org.cn/mzzz/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123172143/http://www.mj.org.cn/mzzz/ |archive-date=23 January 2019 |access-date=22 December 2017 |website=www.mj.org.cn |language=zh}}

The party mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media. 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.{{Cite web |title=中国民主促进会简介 |trans-title=Introduction to the China Association for Promoting Democracy |url=https://www.mj.org.cn/mjgk/mjjj/201911/t20191115_2685.htm |access-date=15 October 2024 |website=China Association for Promoting Democracy |language=zh}}

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