Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t5.4

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He is credited with being the pioneer of the democratic revolution in modern China, the founder of the Republic of China and the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang Party KMT), and the main advocate of the revolutionary programme “San Min Zhu Yi” or “The Three Principles of the People” and the leader to raise the idea of putting an end to the 2,000 year old monarchy in China and bring about republican rule which ultimately paved the way for the unification of China. He is hailed as the “Father of the Republic of China” by the Nationalist Government of KMT and as the “great forerunner of modern democratic revolution by the Communist Party of China.