China has eight democratic parties?

Something I didn’t know before;

"The Chinese political parties include the CCP and eight democratic parties. The CCP is in the leading position in China’s politics, economy and society. As the ruling party, it leads and coordinates the work of the People’s congresses and their standing committees, executives, the People’s court and People’s procuratorates. The CCP devotes itself to building the prosperity of the country and the people and has made great efforts to introduce good governance to make the government clean and transparent. The eight democratic parties play an important and indispensable part in supervising and promoting the building of a clean government.

The CCP was founded on 1 July 1921. It seized political power and founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. By the end of December 2005, there were about 68 million CCP members. The supreme agency of power of the CCP is the CCP National Congress, which is generally held once every five years to elect its Central Committee and the CCDI. The Central Committee is responsible for all work of the CCP when the National Congress is not in session, and it elects members of the Political Bureau of the CCP and its Standing Committee. It has a term of five years. The Central Committee has a secretariat to undertake the routine work of the CCP. In 2002, the 16th National Party Congress elected a new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, which has nine members. They are the top leaders of the CCP."

via CIPE Development blog post, Solutions to Corruption in China

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