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Chairperson | Wu Weihua |
Founded | 4 May 1946 |
Headquarters | Beijing |
Newspaper | Democracy and Science Central Communications of the Jiusan Society |
Membership (2023) | 211,738 |
Ideology | Socialism with Chinese characteristics |
National People's Congress (14th) | 56 / 2,977 |
NPC Standing Committee | 5 / 175 |
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | 45 / 544 (Seats for political parties) |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 九三学社 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 九三學社 | ||||||
Literal meaning | September Third Society | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | དགུ་གསུམ་ཤེས་རིག་སློབ་ཚོགས | ||||||
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Zhuang name | |||||||
Zhuang | Giujsanh Yozse | ||||||
Mongolian name | |||||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | “ 9 · 3 ” эрдэм шинжилгээний нийгэмлэг | ||||||
Mongolian script | ﹃9 · 3 ﹄ ᠡᠷᠳᠡᠮ ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠨᠡᠶᠢᠭᠡᠮᠯᠢᠭ | ||||||
Uyghur name | |||||||
Uyghur | « 3 - سېنتەبىر » ئىلمىي جەمئىيىتى | ||||||
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Manchu name | |||||||
Manchu script | ᠵᡳᡠᠰᠠᠨ ᡧᡠᡝᡧᡳᡝ | ||||||
Romanization | Jiusan Xueshe |
The Jiusan Society (Chinese: 九三学社; pinyin: Jiǔsān Xuéshè; lit. 'Nine-Three Academic Society') is one of the eight minor political parties in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.
The party's original name was "Democracy and Science Forum" on its informal founding in 1944; the current name refers to the date of Chinese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War (3 September 1945). its membership currently consists of high- and medium-level intellectuals in the fields of science, technology, and education. The Jiusan Society is the seventh-ranking minor party in China. It currently has 56 seats in the National People's Congress, 5 seats in the NPC Standing Committee and 45 seats in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its current chairman is Wu Weihua.