Communist Party of China 

    Founded in July 1921, the CPC today has more than 63 million members and over 3.3 million grass-root  organizations.

    The central organs of the CPC include the Party national congress, the Central Committee, the Central   Political Bureau, the Political Bureau¡¯s Standing Committee, the Central Secretariat, the Central Military Commission and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The Party national congress is held once every five years. When the national congress is not in session, the Central Committee is the highest leading organ of the CPC. Hu Jintao is the current General Secretary of the Party Central Committee.

Other Parties

    Besides the CPC, there are another eight political parties.

    The non-Communist parties are neither parties out of office nor opposition parties. They are parties fully participating in the political life of the nation. At present, all the standing committees of the people¡¯s congresses, the committees of the CPPCC and government organs at all levels and the economic, cultural, educational, scientific and technology and other departments have members of the non-Communist parties as leaders.

    The Eight Non-Communist Parties

Name	Date of Foundation	Main Constituesnts	Membership	Chairperson of Central Committee
China Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang	January 1948	Former Kuomintang members and people having historical connections with the Kuomintang	60,144	He Luli
China Democratic League	October 1941	Higher and mid-level intellectuals	144,184	Ding Shisun
China Democratic National Construction Association	December 1945	Specialists, scholars and other people in the economic field	78,415	Cheng Siwei
China Association for the Promotion of Democracy	December 1945	Intellectuals working in educational, cultural, scientific, publishing and other fields	73,914	Xu Jialu
Chinese Peasants and Workers' Democratic Party	August 1930	Higher and mid-level intellectuals in medical, cultural, educational and sci-tech fields	73,802	Jiang Zhenghua
China Zhi Gong Dang	October 1925	Returned overseas Chinese, relatives of overseas Chinese, and representative individuals and specialists and scholars with overseas connections	17,855	Luo Haocai
Jiu San Society	December 1944	Higher and mid-level intellectuals working in science and technology, culture, education and public health	77,947	Wu Jieping
Taiwan Democratic Self-government League	November 1947	People born or with family roots in Taiwan Province currently residing on the mainland	1,811	Zhang Kehui