Apart from the CPC¨Cthe ruling party, there are eight non-Communist parties in China's mainland. They are the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, China Democratic League, China Democratic National Construction Association, China Association for Promoting Democracy, China Peasants and Workers' Democratic Party, China Zhi Gong Dang, Jiu San Society and Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League.

Since the founding of the PRC in 1949, all these parties, taking the Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the Constitution of the PRC and the Constitution of the CPPCC as their political programs, have taken an active part in state administration and the work of the CPPCC. They played an important role in consolidating people's democratic dictatorship, achieving the smooth completion of the socialist transformation and prompting the socialist construction. After the country entered the new era of socialist modernization, these non-Communist parties also undertook fundamental changes accordingly. They are currently political unions of socialist laborers and socialism-supporting patriots who rally to them. They are also friendly parties to the CPC that, under the leadership of the CPC, make concerted efforts to advance the socialist cause. Active in political life, the non-Communist parties have made significant contribution to the country's reform, opening up and socialist modernization drive. They are both an important component of the patriotic united front and a principal force to safeguard national stability and unity and prompt socialist modernization and national reunification.