Nationalist Party (1912)

Kuomintang of China 中國國民黨 Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng
Chairman	Wu Den-yih
Secretary-General	Tseng Yung-chuan
Founded	10 October 1919; 98 years ago (1919-10-10)
Preceded by	Revive China Society (1894) Tongmenghui (1905) Nationalist Party (1912) Chinese Revolutionary Party (1914)
Headquarters	No.232~234, Sec. 2, BaDe Rd., Zhongshan District, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Newspaper	Central Daily News Kuomintang News Network
Think tank	National Policy Foundation
Youth wing	Kuomintang Youth League
Membership (2017)	1,090,000
Ideology	Conservatism Liberal Conservatism Chinese nationalism Three Principles of the People Anti-communism
Political position	Centre-right (present) Right-wing (historical)
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
Party flag
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	"Nationals’ Party of China"
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó Guómín Dǎng Bopomofo ㄓㄨㄥ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄉㄤˇ Gwoyeu Romatzyh Jong'gwo Gwomin Daang Wade–Giles Chung¹-kuo² Kuo²-min² Tang³ IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋkwǒ kwǒmǐn tàŋ] other Mandarin Xiao'erjing ﺟْﻮ ﻗُﻮَع ﻗُﻮَع مٍ دْا‎ Dungan Җунгуй Гуймин Дон 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 kʷɔ̄ːk̚mɐ̏n tɔ̌ːŋ] 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 Gwoyeu Romatzyh Gwomin Daang Wade–Giles Kuo²-min² Tang³ IPA [kwǒmǐn tàŋ] Wu Romanization koh入min平taon上 Hakka Romanization gued2min11dong31 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Gwokmàhn Dóng IPA [kʷɔ̄ːk̚mɐ̏n tɔ̌ːŋ] 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
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunghgoz Gozminzdangj
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дундадын(Хятадын) Гоминдан(Хувьсгалт Нам)
Mongolian script	ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠶᠢᠨ (ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ) ᠭᠣᠮᠢᠨᠳᠠᠩ (ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠰᠬᠠᠯᠲᠤ ᠨᠠᠮ)
Transcriptions SASM/GNC Dumdadyn(Khyatadyn) Gomindan(khuvisgalt Nam)
Uyghur name
Uyghur	جۇڭگو گومىنداڭ
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Junggo Gomindang Yengi Yeziⱪ Junggo Gomindang Siril Yëziqi Җуңго Гоминдaнг
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠵᡠᠩᡬᠣ ᡳ ᡬᠣᠮᡳᠨᡩᠠᠩ
Romanization	Jungg'o-i G'omindang

The Kuomintang of China (/ˈkwoʊˌmɪnˈtɑːŋ, -ˈtæŋ/,KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan) based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui), was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the subsequent declaration of independence in 1911 that resulted in the establishment of the Republic of China. 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 later ceded the presidency to Yuan Shikai. Later led by Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT formed the National Revolutionary Army and succeeded in its Northern Expedition to unify much of mainland China in 1928, ending the chaos of the Warlord Era. It was the ruling party in mainland China until 1949, when it lost the Chinese Civil War to the rival communist People's Republic of China (PRC). Although it lost most of its territory on mainland China, the KMT retreated to Taiwan where it continued to govern as an authoritarian single-party state. This government retained China's UN seat (with considerable international support) until 1971.