page_title: Kuomintang
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Kuomintang / Organization
caption_attribution_description: Bân-lâm-gú: Tiong-kok Kok-bîn-tóng tsāi Tâi-pak--ê tsóng-pōo. A-jîn(seasurfer) hip--ê. 中文（繁體）‎: 中國國民黨中央委員會現址：臺北市中山區八德路二段232號。阿仁(seasurfer)拍的。
context_page_description: The Kuomintang, often referred to in English as the Nationalist Party or Chinese Nationalist Party, is a major political party in Taiwan, based in Taipei. Formed in 1919, the KMT was the sole ruling party of the Republic of China from 1928 to 2000 and is currently an opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.
  The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the Revolutionary Alliance, was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, the subsequent revolt in 1911, and the proclamation 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 ceded the presidency to Yuan Shikai. Yuan's death in 1916 led to the nation's disintegration in the Warlord Era. Sun deputed Chiang Kai-shek to form the National Revolutionary Army and launch the Northern Expedition that unified much of mainland China and established the capital at Nanjing. During the following Nanjing decade China achieved substantial economic growth and social progress, but the Second Sino-Japanese War was disastrous.
caption: KMT headquarters in Taipei City before the KMT Central Committee moved in June 2006 to a much more modest Bade building, having sold the original headquarters to private investors of the EVA Airways Corporation
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