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17th National Congress of the Kuomintang

2005 conference

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionFeb 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ16056900 ↗
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The 17th National Congress of the Kuomintang (Chinese: 中國國民黨第十七次全國代表大会) was the seventeenth national congress of the Kuomintang, held on 19–20 August 2005 at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.

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This entry incorporates text from “17th National Congress of the Kuomintang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.