The Central Reform Committee (CRC) was a body within the Kuomintang established by Chiang Kai-shek with the purpose of restructuring the party by purging corruption and factionalism.
Chiang begun by staffing the committee with sixteen relatively young party members who were not involved with the factionalism Chiang blamed for the loss of the Mainland. The central administration of the party authorised the CRC to initiate party restructuring, then temporarily suspended itself. The CRC then embarked upon a campaign to reorganise the party to make it less corrupt and prone to factionalism, more tightly disciplined, centrally controlled and ideology driven.
The committee determined that it has succeeded in guiding the party through its metamorphosis and returned its powers to the Central Executive Committee in October 1952.
