CENTURY OF PROGRESS

All-China Federation of Trade Unions helps to secure rights, access to education and wide-ranging support system for hundreds of millions of workers

Marking its 100th anniversary this year, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions has mobilized hundreds of millions of workers to strive for national rejuvenation, contributing to China's prosperity and the well-being of its people.

On May 1, 1925, the ACFTU was founded at the second national labor congress held in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. This landmark event signified the political and organizational unity of China's working class, establishing a central leadership body that propelled the country's labor movement into a new phase of development.

Since its inception, the ACFTU has consistently operated under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, rallying and mobilizing the working class to fulfill a central role in advancing the key missions of each historical period.

During the New Democratic Revolution period (1921-49), the ACFTU raised political consciousness among workers, galvanized revolutionary forces and engaged in the struggle against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism. In the era of socialist revolution and construction, they focused on worker education and launched labor emulation campaigns, contributing to the consolidation of new political power and building an industrial foundation.

In the new period of reform, opening-up and socialist modernization, the ACFTU guided workers in supporting reforms and participating in national construction, playing a vital role in liberating