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22:46, 07-Dec-2017
Jiusan Society concludes its 11th national congress in Beijing
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Jiusan Society, one of China's eight major non-Communist political parties, elected its new leadership on Thursday.
Wu Weihua was elected as the new party leader as its 11th national congress concluded in Beijing.
The Jiusan Society is composed mainly of senior and mid-level intellectuals engaged in science, technology, culture, education and medical and health work. As of the end of 2016, it had 164,000 members.
Born in 1956, Wu is a native of northern China's Shanxi Province and joined the Society in 2010. He is a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
At the end of 1944, a number of progressive scholars organized the Forum on Democracy and Science to strive for victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and political democracy.
In commemoration of the victory in the war on Sept. 3, 1945, it adopted the name Jiusan (the date in Chinese) Society. On May 4, 1946, the society was formally founded in Chongqing.