A press conference will be held at 11:00am on Thursday, October 17 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel, located at 600 Hwy 7 East in Richmond Hill

Contact: Majed El Shafie, 416-436-6528; Sheng Xue, 416-568-0466, shengxue@gmail.com

TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. 16, 2013 /Standard Newswire/ -- China is in the midst of a fundamental transformation, and such a transformation is not being shaped or even expected by China's new leadership. The upcoming Together We Lead the Change conference in Toronto will try to determine who is behind the transformation, and how it is taking place.

This conference will be held October 19-21, 2013, at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel, located at 600 Hwy 7 East in Richmond Hill. Attendees will include academics, rights and pro-democracy activists, ethnic group leaders, politicians from Europe and Asia, as well as members of Canadian Parliament from all major parties.

While the factors of an inevitable economic crisis and social unrest are building up rapidly in China, the new leadership of the Chinese government has shown no willingness nor methodology in pushing forward to reform, rather, they have only shown the backwards view. But time and society are no longer waiting for them.

Organized by the Forum for a Democratic China and Asia (FDCA), and with One Free World International, Federation for a Democratic China, The Princeton China Initiative, Citizen Power For China, Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario, Uyghur Canadian Society, China Rights Network, Platform of European Memory and Conscience and The Council for Human Rights in North Korea etc. as co-organizers, the main purpose of Together We Lead the Change - the 6th International Conference on Global Support for Democratization in China and Asia - is to bring together peoples from diverse backgrounds, to discuss plans for cooperation and to develop strategies for democratization in China and Asia.

The conference has drawn wide attention, leading to a series of heavy cyber attacks that have plagued organizers in recent weeks. But they stand undeterred. "We will not back down and we will not be silent," said co-organizer Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International. "We must stand up and let our voices be heard."

The conference will be open to all media, and a press conference will be held at 11:00am on Thursday, October 17 at the host hotel.

For more information, contact:
Majed EL Shafie: Tel. 416-436-6528
SHENG Xue: Tel. 416-568-0466 Email: shengxue@gmail.com