The Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (CPWDP), also abbreviated in Chinese as Nonggongdang ( zh, s=农工党), t=, is one of the eight legally recognized political parties in the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

under the direction of the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...

's United Front. The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The current chairman is He Wei.

History

Foundation

The party had its origins in the collapse of the First United Front when they first met in November 1927. Its original members were left-wing Nationalists and expelled Communists which called themselves the "Provisional Action Committee of the Chinese Nationalist Party" or "Third Party" (despite the name, the Young China Party was third largest in the late 1920s–40s). After August 1930, the party became a cohesive entity under

Deng Yanda Deng Yanda (, 1 March 1895 – 29 November 1931) was a military officer in the Chinese Nationalist Party. He broke with party leaders in 1927, denouncing them as traitors to the party's original principles and in 1930 attempted to form a new party, ...

, who organized it under democratic centralism like both the Nationalists and Communists. Deng was secretly executed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1931 and the party went underground. In 1933, the party, now led by Huang Qixiang, joined with the short-lived "

Productive People's Party The Productive People's Party ( zh, s=生产人民党) was a short-lived leftist political party formed during the Fujian Rebellion in November 1933. It was formed by officers of the National Revolutionary Army's 19th Route Army. They were di ...

" in starting the failed People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China. In 1935, they renamed themselves in to the "Chinese Action Committee for National Liberation". It was one of the founding parties of the China Democratic League. Its leaders renamed the party in February 1947 to its current name.

Present

Currently, the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party comprises a membership of 144,000, most of whom work in the fields of

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

, medicine, and associated fields in science and technology.

Chairpersons

() (1930–1931) # Huang Qixiang () (1931–1938) # Zhang Bojun () (1938–1958) # Ji Fang () (1958–1987) # Zhou Gucheng () (1987–1988) # Lu Jiaxi () (1988–1997) # Jiang Zhenghua () (1997–2007) # Sang Guowei () (2007–2012) # Chen Zhu () (2012–2022) # He Wei () (2022–present)

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* {{Authority control 1927 establishments in China Political parties established in 1927