"As non-communist parties, our political goal and fundamental interests are in compliance with those of the Communist Party of China (NPC)", said Zhang Meiying, vice-chairperson of China Democratic League (CDL).

She told a group of local and overseas reporters Friday that only under the leadership of the CPC, non-communist parties could their political will be attained and their characteristics and advantages brought into play.

Leaders of China's eight non-communist parties aired their views on the role of their parties in administration and discussion of state affairs at a press conference of the ongoing First Session of the Tenth National People's Congress (NP).

In response to a Portuguese reporter's question, Lin Wenyi, executive vice-chairperson of the Taiwan Democratic Self- Government League (TDSGL), said her league, as a close friend of the CPC, is working hard in the cause of building socialism with China's characteristics.

The league is a "political alliance", Lin noted, which is composed of native personages from Taiwan province, who are either workers involved in the building of socialism or patriots who support the cause of socialism.

The leading role of the CPC is manifested mainly in China's political orientation, the correct political line and the road of development, said Zhang Huaixi, an executive vice chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD), in response to a question by a Financial Times reporter and, therefore, it is the correct choice of these non-communist parties.,

With the support of the people, he acknowledged, China has been progressing with its economy prospering.

Li Meng, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (CPWDP), told the reporters that non-communist parties have raised a lot of constructive and useful proposals and suggestions on major policy issues, and many of them adopted by the CPC Central Committee and the central government.

Government departments concerned have solicited opinions from these non-communist parties on such major issues as those regarding the Three Gorges Project and the development of the western region of the country.

China has eight non-communist parties. Besides the four parties whose leaders addressed the press conference, there four other parties, namely, the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the China Zhi Gong (Public Interest) Party, the Jiu San (September 3) Society, and the China National Democratic Construction Association.

The CPC began to work in cooperation with these eight parties in the protracted process of its struggles against the Kuomintang during the war year period from 1930s to 1940s. And a CPC-led multiparty cooperation political system with the eight parties as a main alliance has been founded and grown in strength ever since the founding of new China in 1949.