On this day, 118 years ago, on February 13, 1907 (January 1, 1907 in the lunar calendar), Kang Youwei renamed the Sovereign Association the "National Constitutional Association". Kang Youwei's Statue of the Royalist Association was a political group organized by Kang Youwei in the Thousand Islands of Canada in July 1899. Later, he established similar organizations in America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Hong Kong and Macao. The Loyalist Society opposed the bourgeois revolutionaries headed by Sun Yat-sen, adhered to the constitutional monarchy and opposed revolution. Its main member Liang Qichao used the phrase "The name is the Emperor, but in fact it is the revolution" to lure a group of Xingzhong Association members from Honolulu and other places into joining the Emperor's Association, causing great losses to the revolutionary organization of the Xingzhong Association. After the Qing government announced the "preparatory constitution" in 1906, Kang Youwei, who was far away overseas, changed the Emperor's Association to the "National Constitutional Association" on February 13, 1907. In July and August of that year, Liang Qichao, Jiang Zhiyou, Chen Jingren and others gathered some royalists to organize a political news agency in Tokyo, Japan, founded "Political Theory", issued a declaration, and listed four major programs: (1) Implement the parliamentary system and establish a responsible government; (2) Enact laws to consolidate the independence of judicial power;(3) Establish local autonomy to rectify the powers of the central and local governments;(4) Be prudent in diplomacy and maintain equal powers. In the declaration, they also strongly stated that their ideas "are for the sake of the monarch, which brings benefits but no harm", that they "have no intention of violating the dignity of the royal family" and "have no intention of disturbing public order in the country", in an attempt to exchange this for the trust of the Qing government. The Political Information Society held its inaugural meeting at the Jinhui Museum in Xintian, Tokyo in November. Members of the League and international students stormed the meeting to show their opposition and boycott. After the establishment of the Political Information Society, except for Liang Qichao and several others, most of them returned to China to develop organizations. In February 1908, the headquarters of the Political Information Society was moved from Tokyo to Shanghai, and Ma Liang, the chief executive, presided over social affairs. He founded the School of Law and Politics, sent people to contact constitutional bodies, made friends with princes and ministers, and gradually established branches in various places. In addition, the society has extremely close relations with Jiangsu's Preparatory Constitutional Conference. In July 1908, the Political Information Society called the Constitutional Bureau on behalf of all its members, requesting that the National Assembly be convened within three years. This move has a very inflammatory effect on national constitutional activities. The Empress Dowager Cixi had long been dissatisfied with the activities of the Political Information Society, and had not yet resolved her old grievances against Kang and Liang, so she decided to ban this move. Coinciding with Chen Jingren, the head of the Legal Department who participated in the Political Information Society, wrote a letter to impeach Yu Shimei, the constitutional inspection minister who advocated postponing constitutionalism. The Qing government took the opportunity to dismiss Chen Jingren and ordered the ban on the grounds that the Political Information Society was "many disobedient and high-key criminals" and "entangled with party members... conspiring to incite chaos." As for the National Constitutional Council, it only operated abroad and disintegrated after the Revolution of 1911.