The Huaxinghui (traditional Chinese: 華興會; simplified Chinese: 华兴会; pinyin: Huáxīng Huì; Wade–Giles: Hua-hsing hui), commonly translated as the China Revival Society[1] or China Arise Society,[2] was founded by Huang Xing and Zhang Shizhao on 15 February 1904 with the election of Huang Xing as its president,[3] in Changsha of Hunan[4] for the explicit political goal of overthrowing the Qing dynasty[5] and establishing a democratic and free country.

In early June, Huang Xing returned to China from Japan as an "athlete" of the Army and National Education Association (軍國民教育會)[6] and planned new actions in Hunan and Hubei.

On November 4, 1903, in the name of celebrating his 30th birthday, Huang Xing invited Liu Kuiyi (劉揆一), Song Jiaoren, Zhang Shizhao and others to hold a secret meeting at the home of Peng Yuanxun (彭淵恂), Baojia Bureau Lane, West District of Changsha, and decided to organize an anti-Qing revolutionary group to name "Huaxinghui", and called it "Huaxing Company" (華興公司) to the outside.

Its purpose was to "expel the Tatar barbarians and revive Zhonghua" (驅除韃虜，復興中華);[8] its strategy was to launch a war in Hunan, and the provinces respond to "go straight to Youyan" (直搗幽燕).

Nevertheless, from the very beginning it had strong ties with secret societies, especially with the Ko Lao Hui whose organizational structure the Huaxinghui paralleled, particularly in the field of the military chain of command.