Central Advisory Commission (CAC) of People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 provided "political assistance and consultation" to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is the highest authority within the Communist Party of China. Its approximately 350 members and alternates are selected once every five years by the National Party Congress....

 (中央委员会/中央委員會).

The Commission was established after the Twelfth People's Political Consultative Conference in 1982, and abolished in 1992. The chairmen were Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician, statesman, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy...

 (1982-1987) and Chen Yun

Chen Yun

Chen Yun was one of the most influential leaders of the People's Republic of China during the 1980s and 90s, and one of the top leaders of the Communist Party of China for almost its entire history. He was also known as Liao Chengyun ; it's unclear whether this was his original name or a pseudonym...

 (1987-1992). Its membership was offered only to party members with forty years or more of service which made it almost synonymous with the Eight Immortals of Communist Party of China

Eight Immortals of Communist Party of China

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. Despite being supposedly advisory its power surpassed that of the Politburo Standing Committee

Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

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and was nicknamed the sitting committee.