Kuomintang

Kuomintang 中國國民黨 Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng
Chairperson	Hung Hsiu-chu
Secretary-General	Mo Tien-hu
Founded	October 10, 1919; 97 years ago (1919-10-10)
Preceded by	Tongmenghui (1905) Nationalist Party (1912) Chinese Revolutionary Party (1914)
Headquarters	No.232~234, Sec. 2, BaDe Rd., Zhongshan District, Taipei, Republic of China
Newspaper	Central Daily News, Kuomintang News Network
Think tank	National Policy Foundation
Youth wing	Kuomintang Youth League
Membership  (2017)	899,668
Ideology	Chinese nationalism Three Principles of the People Republicanism Constitutionalism Conservatism Chinese reunification
Political position	Centre-right to Right-wing
National affiliation	Pan-Blue Coalition
International affiliation	Centrist Democrat International, International Democrat Union
Colours	Blue
Legislative Yuan	35 / 113
Municipal Mayoralties	1 / 6
City Mayoralties and County Magistracies	5 / 16
Local Councillors	386 / 906
Township Chiefs	80 / 211
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Website
www.kmt.org.tw
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Kuomintang
"Kuomintang (Guómíndǎng)" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaning	"China Nation-People Party"
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Guómín Dǎng Bopomofo ㄓㄨㄥ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄉㄤˇ Wade–Giles Chung¹-kuo² Kuo²-min² Tang³ IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋkwǒ kwǒmǐntàŋ] other Mandarin Xiao'erjing ﺟْﻮ ﻗُﻮَع ﻗُﻮَع مٍ دْا Wu Romanization tson平 koh入 koh入 min平 taon上 Hakka Romanization dung24 gued2 gued2 min11 dong31 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jūnggwok Gwokmàhn Dóng IPA [tsóŋkʷɔ̄ːk̚ kʷɔ̄ːk̚mɐ̭ntɔ̌ːŋ] Jyutping zung1gwok3 gwok3man4 dong2 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Tiong-kok Kok-bîn-tóng
Abbreviated to
Traditional Chinese	國民黨
Simplified Chinese	国民党
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guómín Dǎng Bopomofo ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄉㄤˇ Wade–Giles Kuo²-min² Tang³ IPA [kwǒmǐntàŋ] Wu Romanization koh入min平taon上 Hakka Romanization gued2min11dong31 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Gwokmàhn Dóng IPA [kʷɔ̄ːk̚mɐ̭ntɔ̌ːŋ] Jyutping gwok3man4 dong2 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Kok-bîn-tóng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཀྲུང་གོའི་གོ་མིན་ཏང
Transcriptions Wylie krung go'i go min tang

The Kuomintang (/ˌɡwoʊmɪnˈdɑːŋ/ or /-ˈtæŋ/,KMT; also spelled as Guomindang /ˌɡwoʊmɪnˈdɑːŋ/, GMD by its pinyin transliteration; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China or Chinese Nationalist Party) is a major political party in the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan. It is currently the second-largest in the country.

The predecessor of the KMT, the Revolutionary Alliance, was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of a republic. The KMT was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. Sun was the provisional president but he did not have military power and ceded the first presidency to the military leader Yuan Shikai. After Yuan's death, China was divided by warlords, while the KMT was able to control only part of the south. Later led by Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT formed the National Revolutionary Army and succeeded in its Northern Expedition to unify much of China in 1928. It was the ruling party in mainland China from 1928 until its retreat to Taiwan in 1949 after being defeated by the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the Chinese Civil War. In Taiwan, the KMT continued as the single ruling party until the reforms in the late 1970s through the 1990s loosened its grip on power. Since 1987, the Republic of China is no longer a single-party state; however, the KMT remains one of the main political parties. The KMT is currently the main opposition party in the Legislative Yuan.