About the National Committee of Democratic Party of China
The establishment of Democratic Party of China resulted from several efforts founding opposition party in the l990s, which were development of 1989 Democracy Movement and late 1970s Democracy Wall Movement. Under the dictatorship of Chinese Communist Party, courageous and persistent efforts have been made by those who are seeking freedom and democracy to form a pro-democratic opposition party in China. In 1991, the Liberal and Democratic Party of China (LDPC) was created in Beijing, and over 20 of its leaders and key members including Mr. Shigen Hu were arrested next year. In 1995, a Democratic Party of China was founded in Guizhou by Xi Chen and his friends, and was brutally cracked down again. In 1995, a group of people including Mr. Youcai Wang in Zhejiang applied openly to the local government for the registration of a new opposition party, the Democratic Party of China(DPC). Activists in many other provinces and municipalities including Beijing, Wuhan, Hunan, Sichuan, Shangdong, Guangxi, Shanxi, Liaoning, Tianjin ,Jilin,etc., soon joined this wave of efforts, which caught the attention from all over the world. Many Chinese dissidents in exile in the United States and other countries were enthusiastically involved in helping push forward this wave inside China. Since 1998, over 300 of people who joined or developed the party have been jailed, and a much greater number of people are closely monitored and often harassed by the police. The communist government has tried all the means to crush down the movement, but apparently has failed to stop it totally.
The Name of National Committee of DPC was first mentioned in "The Declaration of the Establishment of Democratic Party of China" in June 25, 1998 issued by Zhejiang Preparatory Committee of Democratic Party of China. The declaration called upon "all democrats in the nation to join the Democratic Party of China, to prepare and establish regional committees, to send its representatives to participate in a national convention to form a national committee". However, this effort failed because many democrats were arrested and jailed in the following severe crackdown from the communist regime. There was no way to form regional committees, not to mention national one. Therefore, after careful communication among people involved in the struggle to form the DPC both in and outside China, it was determined finally in 2009 to set up a national committee based abroad. In addition, in order to push forward the democratic movement and have the transition from authoritarianism to democracy initiated in China as soon as possible, it is necessary for all groups of the opposition to join hands and develop a strong opposition party. Therefore, in 2009, those involved in forming the Liberal and Democratic Party and the China Progressive Alliance in Beijing in 1991, and those participating in developing the Democratic Party at various periods, after a discussion of the representatives of the three organizations, agreed that they should be merged into one opposition party—the Democratic Party of China (DPC), and jointly create its national committee.
In late 2009, the Preparatory Committee for the National Committee of DPC was set up in New York. On 3rd and 4th of April, 2010, the Special National Convention of DPC was held in Nassau County of New York. The convention passed the Constitution of DPC, and elected the members and the co-chairmen, the Executive Committee, Supervisory Committee, and Advisory Board of the National Committee of DPC. The creation of the National Committee of DPC was not only an answer to the call to develop the "Democratic Party of China", but also a commitment to continue the unfinished causes of the "Democratic Wall Movement" of 1978, oversea "China Spring Movement" of 1982 and the democratic movement of 1989.
The organizational structure of Democratic Party of China National Committee is based on the concepts of modern day political parties. It emphasizes and respects the importance of the local organizations of the Party. The members of the National Committee are recommended and elected by regional committees. It also opens the door to those who would like to contribute to the Party. Those who have been prosecuted, sentenced or sent to labor camps in China due to their involvement in "China Liberal and Democratic Party" ,"China Progressive Alliance" and “Democratic Party" are members of the National Committee by default except they themselves disagree. They constitutes the majority of the National Committee(considering the severe situations in China, names of some of them might not be announced).
The tasks of the Democratic Party of China and its National Committee are as follows:
Currently, Democratic Party of China plays the role of the opposition which challenges the Communist Party of China. Its political mission is to build a strong opposition Party and creates a political perspective to replace Communist Party of China. Wherever there are mistakes, problems and crimes by Communist Party of China, Democratic Party of China will provide responsible criticisms and constructive solutions. Wherever there are dissatisfactory Chinese citizens towards Communist Party of China, Democratic Party of China will openly receive them and listen to their voices. The Party will also absorb these forces into the processes of political transition in China.
In the future, Democratic Party of China will ensure a smooth and peaceful transition to democracy. It will be a constructive Party who leads the political reform. It will end the one-party dictatorship and contest in the general election. It will strive to win the ballots and be the party in power. It will consolidate the democracy. It will establish the rule of law to protect human rights. It will fight against corruption to build an honest government. It will promote its political principles as well as economic and social policies to build a civilian China. It will turn China into a widely respected country which shares the common value systems with the world.
Democratic Party of China will build "The Same China To All". In today’s China, working class differs from that with power and privilege. Rural area differs from urban. East portion differs from the west. Mandarin differs from minorities. Overseas Chinese differs from those in Mainland. We want to end such differences and inequalities. We are to build "The Same China To All". All over China, the same books will be available to you all; the same Internet can be browsed by you all; blogger rooms will be open to you all without restrictions and net policing. There will be no domiciliary registration. There will be no discrimination in education and employment. All Chinese will enjoy the same rights to choose their politicians, be it community leaders or state head. Such a China will be a spiritual home for all Chinese.
We, the Chinese Democrats, sincerely invite you to join us with your wisdom for the realization of a beautiful democratic China in the future. Today, we are all democrats.
The overseas leaders of Democratic Party of China National Committee:
Co-Chairman: Wang Youcai, Wang Juntao
CEO: Wang Tiancheng
Director of Supervisory Board: Liu Nianchun
Secretary General: Fu Shenqi
Deputy Secretary General: Song Shuyuan, Guo Baosheng
Executive Committee: Wang Ce, Wangtiancheng, Wang Cheng,
Yu Zhijian, Liu Zhimu, Liu Guojun, Yang Xiaoyan, Song Shuyuan,Chen Liqun, Chen Weijian, Hou Wenzhuo, Gao Guangjun, Mo Fengjie, Fu Shenqi, Cheng Weimin, Pan Qing, Xiong Yan.
Supervisional Committee: Liu Nianchun, Jin Jing, Gao Peiqi, Lu Jinghua,
Zhu Xueyuan, Yi Gai, Gao Jian, Xia Ming, Huang Xiaoqin.
Advisory Committee:
Chairman: Wei Jingsheng
Advisors: Wan Runnan, Wang Dan, Wu Renhua, Chen Yizi,Chen Dazheng, Hong Shengzhe, Yang Jianli, Wei Jingsheng
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About the leadership team f National Committee of Democratic Party of China (also sometimes translated as Democratic Party of China)
Youcai Wang, Co-chairman,
Born in Fuyang of Zhejiang in 1966, Mr. Youcai Wang began his post-graduate life in the Physics Department of Peking University In 1987. He joined the student democratic movement in 1986. For his involvement in the 1989 student movement at the Tiananmen Square, He was put on the list of the 21 wanted students by the Chinese Government, and sentenced to four-year imprisonment. On June 25, 1998, applying to register “the Zhejiang Committee of Democratic Party of China”, he was arrested again, and sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment. On March 4th, 2004, as a result of International pressure, he was released and sent directly to the US.
Juntao Wang, Co-chairman,
Born in 1958, Mr. juntao Wang gained his B.A. in Nuclear Physics from Peking University, his MPA from Kennedy Government School Harvard’s, , and his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.In 1976, at the age of 17 , he was sentenced to 7 months imprisonment for his involvement in the April 5th movement. After his release, he joined the “Democracy Wall Movement” in 1979, being a key organizer of the famous democratic journal “Beijing Spring”. In 1980, he participated in the Beijing university campus campaign for local representatives. He then began collaboration with Chen Ziming and established the independent think-tank for political change “the China Economic Institute.” He was also the associate editor in chief of “the Economic Weekly.” In 1989, he organized a broad-based United Patriotic Constitutional Conference. He has the distinction of being called the “Black Hand” by the Chinese Communist Party for his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement and as a result was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. In 1994, because of President Clinton's pressure, China released Juntao Wang and sent him to the United States. He was the director of “China Strategy Research Institute”, and the chair of “Free Media Herald” . He is the president of “Chinese Constitutional Reform Association”.
Tiancheng Wang, Chief Executive Officer
Born in Shuangpai, Hunan province, Mr. Tiancheng Wang is a renowned constitutional scholar. He received his law degree from Peking University in 1989 where he served as assistant professor, lecturer, as well as an editor of the “Peking University's Law Journal”. On October 30, 1992, he was arrested for his involvement in establishing the Liberal and Democratic Party of China, and the Independent Labor Union of China, and was sentenced to five years imprisonment. After his release from prison, he published two famous papers “on Republic” and “About Republic Again” -widely recognized as Chinese classics in the field. In January 2008, assisted by Scholar Rescue Fund and Scholars at Risk Network, he came to US and has worked as visiting scholars at Columbia University, Northwestern University and New York University respectively. He was chosen in 2009 as one of the “ 100 Most influential Chinese Public Intellectuals.”
Nianchun Liu, director of the Supervisory Committee
In 1978, as a student of the Chinese literature Faculty at Beijing Normal University student , Mr. Nianchun Liu participated in the Democracy Wall Movement, involving himself in editing and publishing the nongovernmental journal "Today". As a result of this, he was arrested and given a sentence of 3-year imprisonment. In 1993, Mr. Liu, working together with Mr.Yongmin Qin of Wuhan and other seven people, launched the signature campaign of " Peace Charter " .In 1994,along with other intellectuals as well as labor activists including Mr. Hongbing Yuan, Mr.Guoqiang Zhou, Mr. Lin Zhang, Mr. Zhongqiu Wang, Mr. Jiaqi Wang, Mr. Yuguang Sha, Mr.Yuan Song, Mr.Zhou Yang, Mr.Longde Chen, initiated the preparatory process of setting up "The Alliance for the Protection of Chinese Labor Rights .Mr.Liu was monitored，followed,and harassed by the police. In May, he was “disappeared”; and in October, he was released, but put under surveillance in his residence. In March 1995, Mr. Liu took the lead in petitioning the National People's Congress for the annulment of "the system of Reeducation Through Labor "; on May 21, he was arrested. From 21 May 1995 to May 1996, he was put in Fangshan County and kept under residential surveillance .In July, 1996, he was given the penalty of three-year’s reeducation through labor. In December 20, 1999, being granted medical parole ,he left Beijing for the USA with his wife and daughter.
Wei Jingsheng ,Chair of Advisory Council:
born in Beijing in 1950 , Mr. Jingsheng Wei joined the army in 1969, and returned to serve the Beijing Zoo as an electrician in 1973. As a key participant in the Democracy Wall Movement, he used his real name to post his paper "The Fifth Modernization " on December 5,1978, and co-founded the magazine "Explore " . On March 25, 1979 , he made his poster "Head for a Democracy, or a New Dictatorship " ,condemning the authoritarian line of Deng Xiaoping . On March 29 ,1979, Mr. Wei was arrested under the charge of counter-revolution and then sentenced to 15-year imprisonment. His words given during the court-trial, were recorded secretly and released by Mr.Qing Liu and his other friends, who were arrested later. While in prison, Wei Jingsheng wrote a lot of letters to Deng Xiaoping , which were then put together and published. On September 14, 1993 , Wei Jingsheng was released . But on April 1, 1994, he was re- arrested and sentenced to a term of 14 years under the charge of counterrevolution. On November 16, 1997 , he was released and directly exiled to the United States .Then, Mr.Wei was elected Chairman of the Joint Conference of Chinese Overseas Democratic movement .
Shenqi Fu, Secretary General
Mr. Shenqi Fu was born in 1954 in Shanghai. In 1978, he joined the “Democracy Wall Movement, creating the organization “Revival.” In 1979, he was involved in starting the journal “Democratic Herald” , the third issue of which he served as editor in chief until he was arrested. In 1980, he worked with Yongmin Qin to establish the Preparatory Group of Democratic Party of China, and later established the nationwide “China Association of Nongovernmental Journals” where he served as the chief editor of its publication “Responsibility”. In 1981, he organized a petition group on behalf of the association, which finally led to his arrest and sentence of seven- year imprisonment. In 1990, he organized an underground organization, “China Democratic Movement United Front” and worked as the chief editor of the underground journal “Revival” . As a result, he was sentenced to a year and 9 months of prisonment. In 1993, he was given a penalty of education through Labor for three years. He was exiled to the United states in 1996.He then began to work with Bingzhang Wang to set up the” China Democracy and Justice Party” .He was a member of the Overseas Preparatory Committee of Democratic Party of China, acting as Secretary General to promote the formation of the party. In 2008, he participated in creating the “Democratic Forum of China.” He is also an executive member of the East-coast America Committee of DPC. Since 1997, he has been a columnist of “Radio Free Asia” and the host of its “Civic Forum”.
Shuyuan Song, Deputy Secretary General
Mr. Shuyuan Song was harassed and detained for interrogation in 1970. He was a participant of the Democratic Wall Movement in 1978, and was involved in the Democratic Movement of 1989 as the initiator of the “Motorcycle Team.” From 1990 to 1995, he assisted the mainland work of Human Rights in China. In 1993, he worked with Qin Yongmin to start the Peace Charter Movement. In 1994, he worked with Youcai Wang, Nianchun Liu, Hai Li, to start “the Alliance for the Protection of Chinese Labor Rights”, trying to get it registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In 1995, he went to Hong Kong for asylum and was permitted to leave for the United States. He was a founder of “the Joint Conference of Chinese Overseas Democratic Movement”, a founder of China Green Peace Organization, and a founder of the Democratic Forum of China. He was elected chairman of the East-coast America Committee of DPC.
Baosheng Guo, Deputy Secretary General
Mr. Baosheng Guo is the Chairman of San Francisco Division Committee of DPC. He was born in Huangzhong, Qinghai province In 1972. As a student of the People's University of China in 1990s, he began his involvement. In 1993, he was detained for one month because of his activities in memorial of the 1989 Democratic Movement. In 1994, due to his advocating laborer rights in Shenzhen, he was sentenced to three years and half imprisonment under the charge of “inciting and subverting state power” . In 1999, he was put under house arrest for one year in his Qinghai home. In 2004, he converted to Christianity and began his mission of influential preaching all over China. In 2008, he was forbidden from doing public lectures. Since his arrival in San Francisco in December, 2008, he has helped various activities including an open letter campaign demanding the step-down of the Communist Party leader Xinjiang. He is the leader for the Christian Justice Coalition and a board member of “China Democratic Education Foundation”.
Executive Committee members:
Ce Wang, Executive Committee member: Born in Wenzhou City , Zhejiang Province on March 15 , 1949. As the son of Jingshen Wang, a student of Mr. Yifu Ma, one of the masters of modern Confucianism, Mr.Ce Wang received the education of Chinese classics in his childhood. He obtained his master’s degree of Chinese philosophy from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou in 1982, where he served as a professor. In 1987, he got his master’s degree of arts from the University of California, and in 1992, he received his doctor’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii. Joining the Chinese Alliance for Democratic Solidarity in 1985, Mr. Wang was elected a member of the headquarters of the Alliance at its second and third congress. In1992, he involved himself in creating the League of Chinese Christian Democracy, to which he served as Vice Chairman and Secretary-General, and later Chairman. In 1993, Mr. Wang was elected the third President of the Liberal and Democratic Party of China. In 1997, he was elected the president of the United Democratic Front - the Liberal and Democratic Party. In late 1998,Mr.Wang returned to China, presenting a letter to the Chinese Communist authorities to propose a plan of three decades’ political reforms. Meeting in Hangzhou with Youcai Wang, a founder of the Preparatory Committee of Democratic Party of China, he was was arrested and then sentenced to 4- year imprisonment. Released in 2002 , Mr. Wang returned to Spain to settle down . In 2005, he was involved in the formation of the Association of Democracy Promotion in China as its first president. In 2010, Mr. Wang was elected to the Executive Committee of the National Committee of Democratic Party of China. His major works include "The Road to the Rebirth of China: Christian Democracy and the Chinese culture "and" post- Olympics China - two decades’ strategy of rebuilding constitutional democracy ".
Cheng Wang, Executive Committee member: Mr. Cheng Wang was born in Shenyang in 1953, and grew up in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Having attended Xinjiang Medical College and Changchun Norman Bethune Medical University, Mr. Wang went to Wuhan Tongji Medical University where he got his doctor’s degree in medical science in 1987. In 1988, being granted a Graham fellowship of the U.S. Institute of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Mr. Wang arrived at the U.S. to study medical science. Afterwards, he did cardiac surgery research in a couple of American medical schools. From 1996 to 2000, he was a hospital doctor at Maimonides Medical Center and Columbia University Medical Center. Majoring in rehabilitation science, he graduated from Columbia University in 2000. Since then, he has been practicing medicine in New York. He published many articles concerning Chinese traditional medicine on the internet. He was co-initiator of the 2006 online joint proposal " Chinese Traditional Medicine Should not be Supported by the State ". He joined the Democratic Party of China in January 2010.
Zhimu Liu, Executive Committee member: born on 9 January 1962 in Beijing, Mr.Zhimu Liu went to Japan to receive education at his own expense in March 1987. In 1989, he was involved in supporting Democratic movement of 1989 , and joined the Chinese Alliance for Democratic Solidarity, serving respectively as a member of its Headquarters Committee and vice-chairman . In 1998, he participated in founding the Democratic Party of China, being its representative located in Japan. In 2010, he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee of DPC.
Junguo Liu, Executive Committee member: Mr.Liu was a graduate of Foreign Language Department at Southwest Normal University. In 1989, as a candidate for master’s degree at Zhongshan University, he was elected the president of the Patriotic Union of University Students. After the student movement was cracked down, he fled to the United States . He got his law degree from California State University. He is currently a lawyer in Washington DC.
Liqun Chen, Executive Committee member: As a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province , Miss Liqun Chen participated in the Democratic Wall Movement in 1979, and was involved as an important member in running two monthly magazines in Zhejiang , " 45 " and " The River ". In 1989, she took part in the pro-democracy movement. Wanted by the Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang Province, she hid herself for seventeen months. In 1998, she was involved in the creation of Democratic Party of China, and the next year, she fled to America. Miss Chen is a member of Overseas Service Platform of the DPC, president of the Association of Oversea Support of DPC, co-initiator of New York Democratic Forum, and co-founder of China Citizens at Risk Foundation. She was a member of the Preparatory Committee of National Committee of DPC.
Weijian Chen, Executive Committee member
Born in a teacher’s family of Hangzhou on November 28,1952, Mr.Chen graduated from Hangzhou Institute of Education, and once served the Hangzhou Port Authority .In 1979,he involved himself in running nongovernmental magazines, being an editor of “Shen Zhong”. In 1989, he joined the efforts to support students in the democratic movement. In 1991, he moved to New Zealand . From 1996 on, he has been the editor-in-chief of " Daily News "and" Chinese Yellow Pages " , two major Chinese language media in New Zealand. Since his moving to New Zealand, Mr.Chen has been an active participant in the overseas Chinese democracy movement. He was once an editor of " Beijing Spring ", of " Huanghuagang ", and of " Chinese Spring " .In addition, he is a contributor to Boxun.
Zhijian Yu, Executive Committee member
Born in Liuyang County of Hunan Province on August 12th, 1963, he entered Xiangtan Normal College to major in chemistry in 1980. From 1984 to 1989, he was a middle and primary school teacher in Liuyang Village. He joined in supporting Shanghai Student Movement in 1986 . On April 21st, 1989, he took part in organizing Liuyang activities to grieve the death of Yaobang Hu , delivering speeches and creating the “Hunan Sub-Committee for Petition” in Changsha on May 17th of the year. He planned and implemented the Tiananmen Square event of Throwing Eggs to Chairman Mao’s Picture” together with Dongyue Yu, and Decheng Lu, which shocked the world. Then he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was exiled to the United States and became the president of the Abroad Support Committee of Democratic Party of China.
Xiaoyan Yang, Executive Committee Member:
He was born in 1939. In 1969, he was detained for two years and eight months because of his involvement in the case of Zhuoren Wang Counter-revolutionary activities in Jiangsu Province, printing and copying Zhuoren Wang counter-revolutionary poetries. He was engaged in commercial advertisement in Nanjing City Commercial Bureau until 1980 , obtaining a gold medal of the First National Decoration Art Show in Beijing. In 1980, he was the vice manager of Decoration Sculpture Company in Nanjing Normal University. He reunited with his wife in HongKong in 1985. From 1985 to 1995, he worked for Bike Advertisement Company, Baidahui Advertisement Company and servedf Hengchang Furniture Company as the director of its Advertisement Department. In 1986, he joined the Federation for a Democratic China as a director of its HongKong Branch. He participated in publishing the Spring of China magazine in HongKong, registering it as a business entity in HongKong in 1996. From 1997 to 2002, he was an executive editor and an art editor of the Spring of China.
Wenzhuo Hou, Executive Committee member:
Miss Wenzhuo Hou, a/k/a Xiujuan Hou, who was born in Xingyan, Henan Province in 1970, entered Sichuan University English Language Faculty in 1988. She participated in the Democratic movement in 1989. She was under house arrest for three months and just got a punishment of warning because of her young age. After her graduation, she went to Peking University to study psychology for one year. In 1998, she went to Oxford University for the master’s degree in International Refugee Project (lack of financial source, she did not complete the degree). Afterwards, she followed transient population issue in Beijing, and worked respectively for UN Women’s Fund and UN Children’s Fund. In the Spring of 2001, she was a visiting scholar of Human Rights Research Center of Harvard Law School. She extended her research to peasants, household registration system and other problems related to human rights. In October, 2003, she went back to Beijing, focusing on human rights research, and used to be an assistant reporter of Los Angeles Times. In 2004, she set up Renzhiquan Studio, focusing on the problems of peasants and petitioners. The studio also participated in investigating and helping different kinds of cases of basic human rights nationwide. Renzhiquan Studio was persecuted because of its activities, and after 2006, it no long worked in its own name. She participated in the program of Human Rights Sacred Flame Delivery, and was detained secretly for 18 days. In 2009, she went to Canada under a friend’s help. Presently, she teaches human rights. She lives with her one-year old son in Ottawa, Canada now.
Guangjun Gao,Executive Committee Member:
He was born in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province in 1962. He graduated from Southwest Political Science and Law Institute as a student of criminal investigation in 1983, and taught in China People’s Public Security University in Beijing. In 1991, he was arrested in Beijing because of his setting up an underground political party and participating in the Democratic movement of 1989. Later he escaped. In 1993, he exiled to Europe, and arrived in USA in 1994. He graduated from Touro Law School in 1997. He involved himself in the formation of China Democracy and Justice Party , helped organize Democratic Party of China and the National Committee of Democratic Party of China. He is an attorney in the United States.
Fengjie Mo, Executive Committee member:
He was born in Beijing on April 23th, 1944. In 1961, as a middle school student, he was involved in the case of Longkai Bai, a student organization(“Chinese People Socialist Party”), and was arrested on September 16th that yea. In April 30th, 1963, he was sentenced to five-year imprisonment under the charge of “counter-revolution”. In September 1966, after serving his sentence term, he continued to do forced jobs in the jail. In November 1968, he was banished to a village of Heilongjiang Province. He was released in early1 972. From the Spring of 1972 on , he began a vagabond life, working as a bricklayer, a carpenter, and so on in Great Khingan. He went to HongKong on November 4th, 1981 and transformed to Lome City, Toga in West Africa on November 9th, 1981. In April 3rd, 1983, he came to USA and became a member of the Federation for a Democratic China. He was elected the president of the Federation for a Democratic China in 2008.In addition, he is the president of Chinese Refugee Association. His father Mo, Xinglin was a Catholic doctor, who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment under the charge of “counter-revolution”.
Weimin Cheng, Executive Committee Member:
A once peasant entrepreneur; born in Xi County, Henan Province in 1965. As a teenager in 1982, he was arrested by Huangchuan County, Henan Province Public Security Bureau, because of writing a letter to Taiwan. In 1989, he participated in Beijing students’ democratic movement, published the “Student Movement News” at his own cost, and then he was wanted by the Henan Province Public Security Bureau. At the beginning of 1992, he tried to launch a national event: “the Third Year Memory of June Fourth Massacre”, coping thousands of leaflets at his own expense and distributing them all over the country. He was arrested at the campus of Peking University on May 18th of that year, and then he was sentenced to two years imprisonment and deprived of political rights one year. In 1999, he was wanted again because he disclosed to the international community his independent investigation results related to the sale of executed prisoners’ organs by the Chinese authorities. He escaped to Thailand.
Qing Pan, Executive Committee Member
Male, born in Shanghai of China in 1955. Under the influence of his family background, as a teenager, he aspired to seek for human rights and social justice. In 1970s, he was detained twice, and was set free for lack of evidences. In 1983, he was monitored at the workplace because of his opinions differing from the Communist Party. In the middle of 1980s, he started to organize Democratic Salon in Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places. He joined the democratic movement of 1989. After the June 4th Tian’anmen Massacre, he fled China while he was being investigated by Chinese authority. In overseas, he continued to engage in human rights movement, and he is a leader of the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Foundation, China Liberal Democracy Party and several other organizations. In 1999, to support the Democratic Party of China, he organized the Australia and New Zealand Branch of Democratic Party of China; he is the leader of the party in New Zealand. In 2007, he was selected the overseas spokesperson of Chinese National Alliance for Basic Human Rights.
Yan Xiong, Executive Committee member
He was born in 1964. Mr. Yan Xiong used to be a graduate student at Law School Peking University. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1985 and formally withdrew his membership from the CCP on June 4, 1989 after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He was a student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. After June 4th Massacre, he was one of 21 student leaders on the government most wanted list and detained for 19 months in a labor campus. He fled China in 1992 to United States where he studied theology in Boston. Xiong Yan was awarded his Doctorate by Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in May 2009. He joined the US Army. He served as a chaplain in US Army in Iraq and was the only Chinese chaplain there. Now he is a warrant officer at the Warrant Officer Career College at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He is still active in overseas China Democratic Movementand used to be the vice chairperson of China Liberal Democracy Party. In 2009, he was elected as liaison of the preparatory committee in establishing National Committee of Democratic Party of China
The member of the Supervisory Committee
Peiqi Gao, member of the Supervisory Committee
He was born in Tianjin City, China. He graduated from Physical Department of Nankai University in 1982 and then became a teacher in People’s Police School of China, served as the deputy director of the Department of Criminal Law at China Criminal Police College, and the deputy captain of Interpol Unit of Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. In 1989, he sympathized with the student movement and joined " Oriole Action " to rescue democratic movement leaders. In February of 1990, he was detained. Under the help of pro-democratic organization in Hong Kong, he escaped off China for Hong Kong in March 1992. Then he was sent as a political asylee to the United Kingdom. In 1993 he took part in the Federation for a Democratic China (FDC) and was elected as the chairperson of UK Branch of FDC. On the second congress of FDC in 1995, he was elected as the vice president of FDC and the director of Mainland Affair Committee of FDC. He published "United Front Newspaper." In 1998 he became the deputy director of the Overseas working Group and the chairperson of Europe Brach of Democratic Party of China. His story was exhibited in Museum of London in September of 2008.
Jinghua Lv, member of the Supervisory Committee
In the democratic movement of 1989, she joined the Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation (BWAF).As a core member of BWAF, she managed its broadcasting station. After June 4th Massacre, she was wanted by government and became a refugee. In 1990, she worked for the US Labor and Production Union. In 1992, she joined the Federation for a Democratic China was as the officer in charge of public relation in its headquarters. She was a deputy chairperson of CAFD from 1998 to 2008. In 1997 she was one of 49 overseas Chinese democrats who were banned entering China on a blacklist made by Chinese authority. She has been working for Human Rights in China since February 2008.
Xue yuan Zhu, member of the Supervisory Committee
He was born in Guilin, Guangxi Province in 1942 and graduated from East China Norm University in 1965. He used to be a middle school teacher in Sichuan Province and Jiangsu Province. In 1978 he became a graduate student in Chinese Academy of Science. In 1983, he got his Ph. D. in United States of America and did research in a lab in U. S. Department of Energy for a short time. He began his own business in 1987. He is interested in research on humankind and democratization.
Ming Xia, member of the Supervisory Committee
Tenure professor in City University of New York. He got his B.A. and master’s degree from Fudan University and taught there after graduation. He got his Ph. D. in USA and used to work in George Washington University. He was selected in <Montclair''s Who's who in University>, <Marquis Who's who in USA> and <Marquis Who's Who in World>. He was one of Producers of HBO film "China's Unnatural Disaster: the Tears of Sichuan Province". In February 2009, he was elected on the list of "100 Chinese Public Intellectuals (2009)".
Gai Yi ,member of the Supervisory Committee
He was born in Li County, Hunan Province in 1962. He graduated from Hunan Norm University in 1982. Before his college life, he had worked in the Chinese army for a short time. In 1989 he was wanted by government for his key role in the student movement in Hunan Province. In 1992, he began real estate business in Hainan Province. In 1994 he started consultant business for enterprise merger in Beijing. He invested to found " Transaction Quotation System for Enterprise Merger in China" and was its first president. In 1998 he joined China Development Association (CDA) and was one of key leaders. As CDA was labeled by government as illegal organization and Peng Ming, the president of CDA who was later given life imprisonment, he escaped out of China and became a political asylee. He continued to work in democratic movement and was one of three founders of China Constitutionalist Club. Now he is the manager of a trip agency.
Jian Gao ,member of the Supervisory Committee
He was born in 1952. Because he hated June 4th Massacre, he went to Australia in 1992. Soon he joined the Federation for a Democratic China (FDC) and published "FDC News Letter in Melbourne." He was elected as deputy chairperson of Director Board of Melbourne Branch of United Front for A Democratic China. He was once deputy chairperson of China Liberal Democracy Party. In 1999, he founded Melbourne Chinese Alliance for Democratic China and served as a key member in its leading core.
Supervision Board member, Xiaoqin Huang, male, born in Shanghai in 1966. He graduated from Nanjing Geological School and Fudan University. He also enganged in advanced study at Foreign Language Department of Shandong University and Korean Department of Yanbian University. In 1988 to 2002, he worked at Shanghai Invesstigation, Design and Research Institute, Shanghai Yangpu Architectural Design Institute, Shanghai Workers and Peasants Village Primary School, and Shanghai Pudong Wande Primary School. In April 2000, he joined Democratic Party of China and was secretary of First Branch in Sweden. In June 2000, he returned China and joined second echelon. His post is the executive director of Organizational Development and Coordination Center and the director of Shanghai 26th Branch of Democratic Party of China. On February 22 2002, he was detained and arrested on March 31st. After a secret trial on May 8th, he was sentenced to imprisonment for 5 years on May 8th. He was released on February 20 2007. In February 2010, he escaped out of China and went to Thailand. In March he was granted political asylum by the government of United States of America and arrived in USA in early April 2010.
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Runnan Wan, Advisor
Mr. Wan, who was born in 1946, entered Qinghua University in 1964. He was the founder and CEO of Beijing Stone Computer Inc. During the 1980s, he actively promoted the campaign for the liberation of mind and supported the Democratic Movement in 1989. He attempted to facilitate an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress to address and solve the political crisis at the Tiananmen. After the June 4th crackdown he lived in exile overseas and founded the Democratic Front of China with other colleagues. He served as the Chairman of Democratic Front of China (民阵).
Wang Dan, Advisor
Mr. Wang was born in Beijing, 1969. In September 1987 he entered the Department of International Politics, Peking University. Next year he transferred to the Department of History, majoring in Chinese history. On campus, he was actively involved in democratic movement, organizing associations and forums for democracy, and publishing unofficial magazines. In the Democratic Movement of 1989 he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Autonomous Student Union in Beijing” and the co-ordinator of the Union for Patriotism and Constitutionalism in Beijing. He was one of the initiators of the Hunger Strike at the Tiananmen Square and the deputy director of the Headquarters for Defending the Tiananmen Square. After the June 4th crackdown, he was listed as the number one on the government-published “Most Wanted List” of the twenty-one democratic movement student leaders. He was arrested on July 2, 1989 in Beijing. In 1991, he was sentenced to four-year jail term. After his release, he continued to organize opposition movement and was re-arrested in 1995, again being sentenced to eleven year jail term. On April 19, 1998, he was freed, due to the international campaign for his release. The Chinese authority transported him from the jail cell directly to the international airport for his banishment. In 2001, he graduated from Harvard University with a master degree in East Asian studies. In 2008, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in history from Harvard University. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Peace three times, and was a recipient of numerous human rights awards from the National Endowment for Democracy and other institutions. He has also been a visiting scholar at numerous universities in U.S., U.K., and Taiwan. He was a residential writer sponsored by the City of Taipei, Taiwan and was the recipient of the Award in Poems in the First Global Chinese Literature Award. He has been the Chairman of Chinese Constitutional Reform Association, Beijing Spring magazine and several other institutions. He has published more than twenty works in politics and literature, including Wang Dan’s Memoir: Life in Jail and Wang Dan’s Viewpoints.
Yizi Chen, Advisor
Born in 1940, Mr. Chen was a student of physics and Chinese literature at Peking University before the Cultural Revolution. In 1965 he was designated as a “counterrevolutionary” for his writing and submitting a letter of ten-thousand words to then Chinese leader Mao Zedong.In the 1980s, he found ed and led three leading think-tanks in Beijing: the Development Institute at the Center for Agricultural Studies, the Institute for Economic Structural Reforms at the State Council, and the Office for the Political Reform under the Communist Party. He was a chief advisor of then Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang. During the 1989 Democratic Movement, he worked with his colleagues to found the Union of Intellectuals in Beijing and drafted numerous proclamations. After the June 4th Crackdown, he was one of the 23 intellectuals on the government’s “Most Wanted List”. In July 1989, he started his life in exile overseas. He is an important leader of the Democratic Front of China(民阵). Now he is living in U.S.
Chen Dazhen, Advisor
Mr. Chen was born in April 1944. He was a student at a vocational school in Jiangxi during 1960s. In April 1972, he escaped to Hong Kong. In response to the June 4th crackdown by the Chinese Communist government, he organized the legendary “Oriole Action” to help student leaders and leading intellectuals escape from China. He was the commander-in-chief for this operation.
Renhua Wu, Advisor
Mr. Wu, who was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, in 1956, was sent to the countryside and worked as a teacher in 1974. From 1976 to 1978, he served in the Border Patrol Unit of China’s Public Security Force. In February 1982, he obtained his bachelor’s degree in literature from Beijing University. In June 1986, he graduated from Peking University with a master’s degree in literature. He once served as editor, assistant researcher, research director in numerous institutions. He participated in the 1989 Democratic Movement and was one of the leaders for the first demonstration march. He was the coordinator for the Hunger Strike Site and the Petition Group at the Xinhua Gate, Zhongnanhai Compound. On June 3, 1989, he served as the Director of the Special Patrol Team at the Tiananmen Square and witnessed the entire process of Tiananmen Massacre. Since July 1990, he has been living in exile in U.S. and has been an important and active participant in the overseas Chinese democratic movement. He once served as the editor-in-chief of The Free Media Herald, a member of the Liaison Committee of Federation for a Democratic China (中国民联), director of the Headquarters of the Union of Democratic Federation (民联阵), a board member of Beijing Spring magazine, and director of the China Institute of Strategic Studies. Currently he is the Secretary General of the Chinese Constitutional Reform Association (中国宪政协进会). He is the author of Inside Story of Tiananmen Massacre and The Army of Martial Law in the June 4th Event.
Zhesheng Hong, Advisor
Mr. Hong, who was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1939, received his primary education in a public school and his secondary education in Tainan No. 1 Middle and High School. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from National Cheng Kung University and his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University in U.S. He once served as an assistant professor at National Cheng Kung University and Colorado State University. In addition, he was a senior engineer at a Boston-based civil engineering company. Currently he is devoted to democratic movement (both theory and practice), the self-help movement for the masses, and social movement of citizens. He has published, translated, edited or co-edited the following works: Self-Help of Taiwan, Taiwan’s New Thinking;Why Support The Democratic Forum?Labor Movements: Reflections and..
Yang Jianli, Advisor
born in Shandong and graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University. He was a participant of the 1989 Democracy Movement and later had lived in U.S. He obtained two Ph.D. degrees respectively from Harvard University (Political Science) and The University of California-Berkeley (Mathematics). He founded the Fund for 21st Century China and served as its Chairman. He once was the Vice-chairman of the Union of Democratic Federations (民联阵). He has been blacklisted by the Chinese government, denied passport and entry to China. In April 2002, he entered China under a friend’s passport to observe the massive labor movements in Northeastern China and was arrested in Kunming, Yunnan. He was sentenced to five year jail term, with one year suspension of political rights. On April 27, 2007, he was released, but the Chinese government refused to return him his U.S. passport. With help and assistance from the U.S., on August 17, 2007, he returned to U.S. He is the founder of “Citizen Power” Campaign.
