Over 150 people gathered in Tokyo Saturday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Revolutionary League (CRL), calling on all Chinese people to make joint efforts in developing a peaceful and stable relationship across the Taiwan Straits with the aim of realizing China's prosperity in the 21st century.

CRL founder and leader Sun Yat-sen (Nov. 12, 1866 - Mar. 12, 1925) was an outstanding forerunner of the democratic revolution in modern China. He was a patriot who fought against imperialist aggression and for the independence and freedom of China, said a manifesto delivered at the commemorative ceremony, Sun Yat-sen, who was born in south China's Guangdong Province, founded the CRL, China��s first bourgeois revolutionary party, on Aug. 20, 1905 in Tokyo. The founding of the CRL accelerated the process of the Chinese democratic revolution and marked the beginning of a new stage in the Chinese bourgeois democratic revolution.

After the CRL's founding, Sun summed up the league's program as the Three People's Principles -- the principle of nationalism, the principle of democracy, and the principle of people's livelihood.

The manifesto urged all Chinese people to achieve Sun's unfulfilled wish by dissolving political differences and promoting mutual development to promote across-straits relations to peace and stability and realize the country's great progress and development in the 21st century.

Wang Wenyuan, former vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and honorary chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, addressed the ceremony, calling on all Chinese people to contribute to realizing the cause of the motherland's reunification.

Source: Xinhua