Back Lliga Democràtica de la Xina Catalan Čínská demokratická liga Czech Demokratische Liga Chinas German Liga Democrática de China Spanish Ligue démocratique de Chine French הליגה הדמוקרטית של סין HE Liga Demokrasi Tiongkok ID Lega Democratica Cinese Italian 中国民主同盟 Japanese 중국 민주 동맹 Korean
China Democratic League 中国民主同盟 Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Tóngméng | |
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| Chairperson | Ding Zhongli |
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| Headquarters | Dongchang Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing |
| Newspaper | Popular Tribune Central Communications of the League Guangming Daily (1949–1982) |
| Membership (2023) | 356,900 |
| Ideology | Socialism with Chinese characteristics 1941–1947: Big tent Centrism Multi-party democracy |
| National People's Congress (14th) | 56 / 2,977 |
| NPC Standing Committee | 9 / 175 |
| Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | 65 / 544 (Seats for political parties) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 中国民主同盟 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 中國民主同盟 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 民盟 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan | ཀྲུང་གོ་དམངས་གཙོ་མནའ་མཐུན | ||||||||
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| Zhuang | Cunghgoz Minzcuj Dungzmungz | ||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | Дундад улсын ардчилсан холбоо | ||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳᠴᠢᠯᠠᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠯᠪᠣᠭᠠ | ||||||||
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| Uyghur | جۇڭگو دېموكراتىك ئىتتىپاقى | ||||||||
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| Manchu script | ᠮᡳᠨᠮᡝᠩ | ||||||||
| Romanization | Minmeng | ||||||||
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The China Democratic League (CDL) is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party. The CDL was originally founded in 1941 as a pro-democracy umbrella coalition group of the Chinese National Socialist Party, the Chinese Youth Party and the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party to fight the Imperial Japanese Army while providing for a "Third Force".
As of December 2023[update], the CDL had around 356,900 members. Its membership mostly consists of mid and senior-level intellectuals in the fields of culture, education, natural and social sciences, and technology. The CDL is the second-ranking minor party in China after the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. It currently has 56 seats in the National People's Congress, 9 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 65 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its current chairman is Ding Zhongli.