The charter of Federation for a Democratic China was revised and passed at the 6th Congress held in Bonn on December 8, 2000. 

The Beijing masscre of 1989 put back the clock of the Chinese political developement and China lost a good chance for political transformation. The dictatorial government carried out a purge of pro-democracy activists inside and outside of the Party. Some were arrested and put into Jail, some were forced into exile. The Federation for a Democratic China was founded by exiled students and scholars in Paris in 1989.

The programs of FDC are: to guarantee basic human rights, to protect social justice, to development pluralistic economy, to abolish one-party dictatorship and establish a democratic China. The working principles are peace, rationality and non-violence. FDC advocates pluralistic politics and insists on democracy, transparency and openness.

The First International Conference on Global Support of Democratization in China and Asia, held from 14th to 19th of May in 2006 in Berlin, brought the Chinese democracy movement out of its troughs.