China Democratic League

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The China Democratic League (CDL) is one of the eight minor non-oppositional political parties in the People's Republic of China, officially termed "democratic parties," led by the Chinese Communist Party. The CDL was originally founded in 1941 as a pro-democracy umbrella coalition group of the China Democratic Socialist Party, the Young China Party and the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party to fight the Imperial Japanese Army while providing for a "Third Force". During the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government outlawed the CDL in 1947 for subversion and aligned with the CCP since. As of December 2023, 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...

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