Wan Gang, Minister of Science and Technology, was elected chairman of the Central Committee of China Zhi Gong Dang (CZGD) here on Friday.
Wan, a Shanghai native, was appointed Minister of Science and Technology in April, when he was then vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Zhi Gong Party.
His appointment made him the first non-Communist party minister in China's State Council since the late 1970s, when China launched its economic reform and opening-up drive.
Wan was formerly an automobile engineer at the Audi Corporation in Germany, and he was also president of Shanghai's Tongji University before assuming the position of Science and Technology Minister.
The CZGD was founded in October 1925 in San Francisco, under the sponsorship of overseas Chinese societies. In May 1947, the party held its third congress in Hong Kong and reorganized into a new democratic party.
Its members are mainly from the middle and upper social strata of returned overseas Chinese and their relatives.
The CZGD has branches in 19 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, with more than 28,000 members.
Source: Xinhua
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