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X user @LeiYang8964 posted video footage in which the person in the video, Wu Xiong, openly stated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest obstacle to democracy in China, and called on the public not to follow the Communist Party, saying it will not meet a good end.
China Democracy Quarterly has released Issue 4 of 2026, covering topics such as artificial intelligence and authoritarian rule, youth social movements, and historical memory. A full download is available, and readers are urged to forward and spread the word.
On October 10, the Double Tenth Day, Chinese netizens commemorated Sun Yat-sen in various ways, displaying his views such as "the world belongs to all" and "the country is not the domain of one person," expressing their respect and their longing for democracy and freedom.
On the day Xi Jinping attended the White House state dinner, members of the Chinese Democracy Party and onlookers held a protest parade on the streets of Washington with a Xi Jinping doll and beat it.
On September 13, 2026, the Chinese Democracy Progress Alliance held a rally at Sydney Town Hall in Australia. The event was organized by the organization's publicity department head Ji Yichen and organization department head Ni Yongjiu. Rally participants called for an end to the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule and demanded that Xi Jinping step down, while also expressing concern over the human rights situation in Xinjiang, voicing support for members of the Hong Kong Alliance and imprisoned democrats such as Joshua Wong, and reiterating their demands for freedom, democracy, and human rights.
On January 12, 2026, the grassroots online community Li Community released its 2025 annual report, compiling digital action projects covering reducing the burden on middle school students, records of workers' excessive overtime, and cross-border fraud verification, along with more than 20,000 submissions from the public.
Rights lawyers and civic activists such as Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, and Wu Shaoping gathered in Xiamen, Fujian to discuss current affairs and the development of civil society in China, prompting a nationwide crackdown by the Chinese authorities.
Xi Jinping proposed "whole-process democracy" and announced that China has achieved whole-process democracy, claiming that Chinese democracy is even better than that of the United States.
After the Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008, large numbers of civilian volunteers and professional rescue teams from various regions joined the disaster relief effort, which is often regarded as a symbol of the rise of civil society in China.
The Alashan SEE Ecological Association was established, where entrepreneurs learn the skills of rule-based negotiation and self-governance through internal governance and one-person-one-vote elections.
In 1998, Xu Wenli, Wang Youcai, and Qin Yongmin, founders of the China Democracy Party, were sentenced for their party-building activities, marking the establishment of political parties as a taboo in China.
In 1980, Poland founded the independent trade union Solidarity during the communist era. The union later became the impetus for designing Polish society beyond the government in the post-communist period, enabling a relatively smooth transition after the fall of communism in Poland.