AsianInfo.org
supports
I.C.E.Y. - H.O.P.E. (non-profit
org) (International
Cooperation of Environmental Youth - Helping Our Polluted Earth)
Any advertisement you view helps save the environment!
Thanks!
American
Teenage Activist Appeals on Tiananmen Square
A 13-year-old U.S boy,
Jonathan Lee, who is campaigning for a peace park, was
released from Chinese detention along with his mother,
after staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square in
Beijing.
He is asking the China to support:
1.The end of the Korean War with the signing of a peace
treaty between the two Koreas and the U.S.
2.A nuclear free Korean peninsula.
3.The creation of a Children's Peace Forest in the DMZ.
It's motto is Above Politics, Above Borders, Above
Conflicts, Above Ideology. It's all about giving hope to
people and children around the world. More......
AsianInfo.org
supports I.C.E.Y. -
H.O.P.E. (non-profit org) (International
Cooperation of Environmental Youth - Helping Our Polluted
Earth) Any advertisement you view helps save the
environment! Thanks!
China
is a country of many political parties.
Apart from the CPC (Communist Party of China),
which is in power, China has eight non-Communist
parties. Since their founding, the latter
have established cooperative relations with the
CPC to different extents.
The
non-Communist parties responded to the call put
forward by the CPC to hold the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and
participated in the First Plenary Session of
the CPPCC in September 1949 with the CPC and other
democratic personages, at which the Common Program
was adopted as the provisional constitution, and
the Central People's Government was elected
and founded, hence the founding of the People's
Republic of China.
Since
then, all the non-Communist parties have earnestly
participated in the consultations and decisions
concerning important issues in the state's
political life; and many representatives of the
non-Communist parties have been elected deputies
to the people's congresses and members of the
committees of the CPPCC at various levels.
Many
members of the non-Communist Parties hold leading
posts on the standing committees of the people's
congresses, the committees of the CPPCC,
government organs, and economic, cultural,
educational, scientific, and technological
departments at various levels.
The
non-Communist parties of China are neither parties
out of office, nor opposition parties, but
friendly parties that "coexist over a long
period of time, engage in mutual supervision, show
utter devotion to each other and share honor and
disgrace, weal and woe" with the CPC.
They are parties participating in government and
political affairs.
conventional long
form: People's
Republic of China
conventional short
form: China
local long form: Zhonghua
Renmin Gongheguo
local short form: Zhongguo
abbreviation: PRC
Government type:
Communist state
Capital:
name: Beijing
geographic
coordinates: 39
55 N, 116 23 E
time difference: UTC+8
(13 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard
Time)
note:despite
its size, all of China falls within one time zone;
many people in Xinjiang Province observe an
unofficial "Xinjiang timezone" of UTC+6,
two hours behind Beijing
Administrative
divisions:
23 provinces (sheng,
singular and plural), 5 autonomous regions (zizhiqu,
singular and plural), and 4 municipalities (shi,
singular and plural)
note:China
considers Taiwan its 23rd province; see separate
entries for the special administrative regions of
Hong Kong and Macau
Independence:
221 BC (unification
under the Qin Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Qing
Dynasty replaced by the Republic of China); 1
October 1949 (People's Republic of China
established)
National holiday:
Anniversary of the
founding of the People's Republic of China, 1
October (1949)
Constitution:
most recent
promulgation 4 December 1982 with amendments in
1988, 1993, 2004
Legal system:
based on civil law
system; derived from Soviet and continental civil
code legal principles; legislature retains power
to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on
judicial review of legislation; has not accepted
compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage:
18 years of age;
universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: President
HU Jintao (since 15 March 2003); Vice President XI
Jinping (since 15 March 2008)
head of government: Premier
WEN Jiabao (since 16 March 2003); Executive Vice
Premier LI Keqiang (17 March 2008), Vice Premier
HUI Liangyu (since 17 March 2003), Vice Premier
ZHANG Deijiang (since 17 March 2008), and Vice
Premier WANG Qishan (since 17 March 2008)
cabinet: State
Council appointed by National People's Congress
(For
more information visit the World
Leaders website)
elections: president
and vice president elected by National People's
Congress for a five-year term (eligible for a
second term); elections last held on 15-17 March
2008 (next to be held in mid-March 2013); premier
nominated by president, confirmed by National
People's Congress
election results: HU
Jintao elected president by National People's
Congress with a total of 2,963 votes; XI Jinping
elected vice president with a total of 2,919 votes
Legislative branch:
unicameral National
People's Congress or Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui
(2,987 seats; members elected by municipal,
regional, and provincial people's congresses, and
People's Liberation Army to serve five-year terms)
elections: last
held in December 2007-February 2008 (date of next
election to be held in late 2012 to early 2013)
election results: percent
of vote - NA; seats - 2,987
note:only
members of the CCP, its eight allied parties, and
sympathetic independent candidates are elected
Judicial branch:
Supreme People's Court
(judges appointed by the National People's
Congress); Local People's Courts (comprise higher,
intermediate, and basic courts); Special People's
Courts (primarily military, maritime, railway
transportation, and forestry courts)
Political parties
and leaders:
Chinese Communist
Party or CCP [HU Jintao]; eight registered small
parties controlled by CCP
red with a large
yellow five-pointed star and four smaller yellow
five-pointed stars (arranged in a vertical arc
toward the middle of the flag) in the upper
hoist-side corner; the color red represents
revolution, while the stars symbolize the four
social classes - the working class, the peasantry,
the urban petty bourgeoisie, and the national
bourgeoisie (capitalists) - united under the
Communist Party of China
Disclaimer:
AsianInfo.org
does not guarantee the complete accuracy of the information provided on
this site or links. Do your own research and get a professional's
opinion before adhering to advice or information contained herein.
Use of the information contained herein provided by AsianInfo.org and
any mistakes contained within are at the individual risk of the user.
(We
do not provide links to, or knowingly promote, any violent or pornographic
sites.)
)
