The YCP was an important political party during the early history of the Republic of China, when its government was based on the mainland.

The Young China Party was founded by a group of Chinese students in Paris, France on 2 December 1923.

It also promoted a nationalist agenda which focused on the abolition of the special privileges and extraterritoriality which foreign powers had obtained in China during the final years of the Qing dynasty.

The Nationalists denounced them as a warlord party due to their early failed attempts to recruit Wu Peifu and their opposition to the Northern Expedition.

After the initiation of the full-scale war, the YCP cooperated closely with the Kuomintang (KMT) in fighting the Japanese military aggression.

[5] In April 1945, one of the YCP's founders, Li Huang was appointed as one of the Republic of China's delegates to the San Francisco Conference at which the United Nations organization was created.

Given its intellectual foundations, the YCP placed great emphasis on periodicals and printed several reference books on party history and platforms.

In the 1990s, the YCP lost all of their seats and failed to gain elected representation after Taiwan's democratic transition.

The party supports Chinese unification under a democratic China and opposes Taiwan independence and "One Country, Two Systems".