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Backgrounder: All-China Federation of Trade Unions

Backgrounder: All-China Federation of Trade Unions

BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) opened its 14th National Congress Monday morning in Beijing.

The ACFTU is the leading body of all local trade union councils and national institutions of industrial trade unions.

It was first founded at the Second All-China Labor Congress in Guangzhou City in southern China on May 1, 1925, and was forced underground in 1927 after the First Revolutionary Civil War. The Sixth All-China Labor Congress, held from Aug. 1 to 22, 1948 in northeastern China's Harbin City, decided to restore the federation.

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