Jiusan Society



The Jiusan 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 Jiusan Society is the seventh-ranking minor party in China. 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). The party is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

History
The party was originally founded informally in 1944 as the "Democracy and Science Forum".

Organization
The party's mission statement is to "lead the nation to power and the people to prosperity". The party's main focus is scientific and educational development.

The Jiusan Society has 30 province-level, 281 prefecture-level city, 29 county-level and 7,803 grassroot level organizations.

The party publishes the newspapers Democracy and Science (民主与科学) and Central Communications of the Jiusan Society (九三中央社讯).

Composition
The party's membership mostly consists of high- and medium-level intellectuals in the fields of science, technology, and education. , the party has 204,069 members, of whom 116,071 are senior academicians.

Chairpersons

 * 1) Xu Deheng (许德珩), 1946–1987
 * 2) Zhou Peiyuan (周培源), 1987–1992
 * 3) Wu Jieping (吴阶平), 1992–2002
 * 4) Han Qide (韩启德), 2002–2017
 * 5) Wu Weihua (武维华), 2017–present