Department of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party

Last updated December 14, 2025

Department of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party
民主進步黨中國事務部
Formation	November 21, 2012;13 years ago (2012-11-21)
Director	Wu Junzhi
Parent organization	Central Executive Committee of the Democratic People's Party

The Department of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party is an agency of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that handles matters related to mainland China. On 21 November 2012, the DPP China Affairs Committee was established; the first chairman was concurrently held by the party chairman Su Tseng-chang.

History
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History

In November 2012, Chuang Jui-hsiung, a protégé of Frank Hsieh, said that after Hsieh's visit to mainland China that year, "confidently and bravely facing cross-strait issues" became a consensus within the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and this became a catalyst for the establishment of the China Affairs Committee.^[1] On 30 December 2013, Ker Chien-ming, the convener of the Democratic Progressive Party caucus in the Legislative Yuan, said that when the China Affairs Committee held its first meeting, Chiou I-jen, the former Secretary-General of the Presidential Office who was sitting next to him, asked clearly at the outset, " Should the Taiwan independence party platform be dealt with?" As a result, everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to respond.^[2]

On 9 January 2014, the China Affairs Committee released the "Minutes of the 2014 Review of China Policy by the China Affairs Committee and the Expanded Meeting on China Policy", stating: "We are Taiwanese. Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country. Its official name is the Republic of China. It is not subordinate to the People's Republic of China. The future of Taiwan should be decided by the 23 million people of Taiwan themselves. This is the greatest consensus of the people of Taiwan at this stage.... Cherishing and defending Taiwan's free, democratic, and open way of life is already the greatest consensus in Taiwan."^[3] The Department of China Affairs was restarted on 21 January 2015.^[4]

Function

The China Affairs Committee is mainly responsible for collecting and analyzing materials to provide the DPP with advice and opinions on handling relations with mainland China. The China Affairs Committee recruits elites and leaders of the DPP, absorbs opinions from different factions, and corrects biases in handling the matter.^[1]

Composition

The committee members and advisory committee members came from different factions.^[5]

References

1 2 "台湾学者解密民进党"中国事务委员会"的4个谜". 東南網. 2012-11-22. Archived from the original on 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
↑ "台湾学者解密民进党"中国事务委员会"的4个谜". 東南網. 2012-11-22. Archived from the original on 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
↑ 林朝億 (2014-01-09). "民進黨2014對中政策檢討紀要全文". 新頭殼 . Archived from the original on 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
↑ "民进党"中国事务委员会"21日重启讨论两岸交流". 中新網. 2015-01-20. Archived from the original on 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
↑ "民进党"中国事务委员会"首次开会". 中新網. 2013-05-09. Archived from the original on 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2015-02-09.

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Department of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party

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History

Function

Composition

References