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China Association for Promoting Democracy 中国民主促进会
Chairperson	Cai Dafeng
Founded	30 December 1945; 79 years ago (1945-12-30)
Headquarters	Beijing
Newspaper	Democracy Monthly
Membership(2024)	200,000
Ideology	Socialism with Chinese characteristics
National People's Congress (14th)	54 / 2,977
NPC Standing Committee	7 / 175
CPPCC National Committee (14th)	45 / 544 (Seats for political parties)
Website
www.mj.org.cn
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TheChina Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD) is one of the eight minordemocratic parties in thePeople's Republic of China under the direction of theChinese Communist Party.

It was formed on 30 December 1945, and mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media. The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 58 seats in theNational People's Congress, 7 seats in theNPC Standing Committee and 45 seats in theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its current chairman isCai Dafeng.

The party was formed on 30 December 1945 inShanghai.^[1][2] The majority of the founding members were before members of theChinese Communist Party.

According to its constitution, the CAPD is officially committed tosocialism with Chinese characteristics and upholding the leadership of the CCP.^[3] The CAPD is the fourth-ranking minordemocratic party in China.^[4] The party is a member of theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference.^[5]

The highest body of the CAPD officially is the National Congress, which is held every five years. The 13th National Congress, held in December 2022, was the most recently held Party Congress. The National Congress elects the Central Committee of the CAPD.^[3] At the end of 2024, the party had 29province-level, 274prefecture-level city, 54county-level and 9,442 grassroot level organizations.^[6] The CAPD publishes a newspaper titledDemocracy Monthly (民主).^[7]

The party mainly represents high-level intellectuals engaged in education and cultural publishing media.^[1] At the end of 2024, the CAPD had more than 200,000 members, of which 71.4 were middle- and high-level intellectuals in the fields of education, culture, publishing, media, and science and technology.^[6]

No.	Chairperson		Took office	Left office	Ref.
1		Ma Xulun 马叙伦	April 1950	July 1966	[citation needed]
2		Zhou Jianren 周培源	October 1979	July 1984	[citation needed]
3		Ye Shengtao 叶圣陶	December 1984	June 1987	[citation needed]
4		Lei Jieqiong 雷洁琼	June 1987	December 2, 1997	[citation needed]
5		Xu Jialu 许嘉璐	December 1997	December 2007	[citation needed]
6		Yan Junqi 严隽琪	December 2007	December 2017	[citation needed]
7		Cai Dafeng 蔡达峰	December 6, 2017	Incumbent	[8]

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