a Political party in China, created in January 1948 in Hong Kong by opposition groups in the Kuomintang, including the Union of Supporters of the Three Principles of the People and the Association to Promote the Development of Democracy of the Kuomintang, who were dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek’s reactionary domestic and foreign policies. The party united certain segments of the nationalist bourgeoisie and urban petite bourgeoisie.
In May 1948 the party responded to a call from the Communist Party of China to participate in preparations for convoking the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Representatives of the party took part in the first session of the CPPCC in September 1949, which proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Some members of the party also joined the government of the PRC. Since the start of the Cultural Revolution in the second half of the 1960’s, there has been no news in the press of the PRC regarding the functioning of the party.