China Zhi Gong Party

The Zhi Gong Party (Chinese中国致公党/中国致公党, Pinyin Zhōngguó Zhìgōngdǎng ) is one of eight small block parties in the People's Republic of China.

History

The Zhi Gong Party was founded in October 1925 in San Francisco, but the party headquarters relocated to Hong Kong in 1926. The party was led to its founding by the former Kuomintang members Jiongming Chen and Tang Jiyao. You stood up for federalism and multi-party democracy in China. After the Manchurian crisis, the party was anti - Japanese and supported propaganda and boycotts against Japan. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941 it was almost completely dissolved.

At the Third Party Congress in 1947, the party politically oriented to the left. Since then, she is a mouthpiece of the overseas Chinese. Even after the founding of the People 's Republic of China has maintained this role. In April 2007, Wan Gang, vice chairman of the Zhi Gong Party, was appointed Technology Minister of the People's Republic of China and was so since the 1950s, the first member of the government, which did not come from the ranks of the Communist Party of China.