BEIJING — Zheng Jianbang was elected as chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (RCCK) on Saturday.

The decision was announced after the RCCK, a non-communist political party with about 158,000 members, concluded its 14th national congress in Beijing.

Zheng is also vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

At the closing session of the national congress of the RCCK, a 218-member new central committee was elected, which later chose Zheng as its chairman.

The RCCK, founded in January 1948, is one of the eight non-communist parties in China that participate in state affairs under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.