Active members are located in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Thailand and in other European and Asian countries.

The group was very active in the five years following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and was then substantially reinvigorated after 2003, with large congresses attracting a broad cross-section of leading Chinese democracy activists and exiles.

[2] In 2005 Chen Yonglin, then Chinese consulate-general working in Sydney, defected to Australia in a formal claim for political asylum.

On March 24, 2017, during the 13th Congress of FDC, Chin Jin, who lives in Australia, was elected as President.

Jin Xiuhong of the United States, Sheng Xue of Canada, Wang Dai of Japan and Zhang Jian of France were all elected as Vice-Presidents, and Luo Le from Canada was elected as the Chair of the Supervisory Committee.