nov 24, 1913 - Establishment of "National People's Party"

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The National People's Party was also known as Kuomintang (KMT). It was found by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, it 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 until 1949, when it lost the Chinese Civil War to the Communist Party of China (CPC). Despite retreating to Taiwan and losing most of its territory, the KMT remained an authoritarian government. In Taiwan, the political reforms started in the 1990s, and loosened KMT 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.