Zhou Tienong was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight non-communist parties. (Xinhua Photo)

    BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Tienong was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight non-communist parties.

    The RCCK concluded its weeklong 11th national congress here on Saturday, announcing the congress had elected its 11th RCCK Central Committee of 209 members.

    The first plenum of the 11th Central Committee also elected Li Wuwei, Niu Xiaoming, Wan Exiang, Qi Xuchun, Xie Kechang, Xiu Fujin, Liu Fan, Cheng Chongqing, Fu Huimin and He Pijie as vice chairpersons of the RCCK Central Committee.

    "Since reform and opening-up, China has maintained rapid economic development and political stability," said Zhou, 69. "We are proud of these achievements created by China.

    "In creating these achievements, the multi-party cooperation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China played a significant role," he said.

    Zhou called on the RCCK members to study and implement the essence of the 17th CPC National Congress. He also urged the RCCK members to improve multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC.

    Since its founding on Jan. 1, 1948, in Hong Kong, the RCCK has closely cooperated with the CPC. Such cooperation not only contributed to the victory of China's liberation war and founding of the People's Republic of China, but also played an increasingly important role in China's economic development and promoting China's reunification.

    In recent years, the RCCK has put forward many proposals that have been adopted by the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council, including proposals on financial reform, sustainable development of the mining industry, youth exchanges across the Taiwan Strait and opposition to "de jure independence".

    The RCCK has more than 82,000 members and 4,000 grassroots organizations. It recruits members mostly from people who have relations with the former Chinese Kuomintang, those who have historical or social relations with the RCCK and those who have ties with Taiwan. The RCCK also recruits members from other sources, especially those of the middle and upper social strata, and senior and leading intellectuals.

    "The historical ties with Chinese Kuomintang and Taiwan relatives or friends of RCCK members are helpful for the RCCK to work on the issues related to Taiwan," he said.

    "The RCCK has made unremitting efforts to promote the reunification of China and oppose and curb 'de jure independence'," he said. "Since 2000, the RCCK has focused its work on the Taiwan public and this has deepened cross-Strait exchanges."

    "We have organized Taiwan university students to visit Nanjing, Shanghai and Xi'an for six consecutive years," he said.

    "The students saw the mainland with their own eyes and many said what they saw in the mainland was different from what they had learned in Taiwan," he said.

    The RCCK and its branches would adhere to the principle of "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems", the eight-point proposal for developing relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the four-point guideline on relations across the Taiwan Strait, he said.

    The RCCK would work hard to push economic and personnel exchanges across the Taiwan Strait, and firmly oppose the secessionist activities aimed at "Taiwan independence", he said.

    Zhou was born in November 1938 in northeast China's Liaoning Province and joined the RCCK in June 1991. He studied in the Mathematics and Mechanics Department of Beijing University from 1955 to 1960 and was a teacher at the Northeast Heavy Machinery Institute from 1961 to 1983.

    He served as vice mayor of Qiqihar City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province from 1983 to 1991, and vice governor of the province from 1991 to 1992. Zhou is currently the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

11th national congress of Revolutionary Committee of Kuomintang opens

    BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK), one of China's eight noncommunist parties, opened here on Sunday its 11th national congress and marked its 60th anniversary.

    Zhou Yongkang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with the participants to the congress and delivered a congratulatory speech on behalf of the CPC Central Committee.  Full story