The faces, old and new, in non-Communist parties
By Meng Na | China Daily | Updated: 2007-12-26 07:34
He Shengjia, a doctor and Jiu San Society member, checks the health of a baby at a free medical camp in Chongqing Municipality in this April photograph. Jiu San Society is a non-Communist party and organizes such free camps in different parts of the country. Chen Shichuan |
The Communist Party of China (CPC) comprised workers and some farmers when it was formed in 1921 in Shanghai. But a majority of the members of the eight democratic parties, founded mostly during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and the War of Liberation (1945-49), were professionals, industrialists and intellectuals.
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