Inner Mongolia (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The Mongol Democratic State (Mongol: ᠮᠣᠨᡤᠣᠯ ? ᠷᡩᠶᠨ ᠣᠷᠣᠨ Mongol Ardyn Oron; Chinese: 疆人民本国 Měngrén Mínběnguó). Usually referred as South Mongolia or Inner Mongolia, but more popularly known from its former Chinese official name, Mengjiang.

History
In September 12, 1945, the Eleven Japanese Division and Fourth Manchurian Division of Anti-Fascist Japanese Liberation Forces entered Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. The commander of Kuomintang Army in Inner Mongolia, General Chen Xuogun officially surrendered to the commander of AFJLF in Kalgan, General Ishiozaka Murinashi in September 19, 1945. The Interim Executive Committee of Mongol Territories formed in September 25, 1945 and headed by Nayaan Tuunamiir.

The conference between the delegates of Allied Powers in Inner Mongolia held in Kalgan on December 1, 1945. The Soviet Union and Japan agreed to replace the forces of Red Army and the Mongolian People's Army in southern Xingan with the forces of the AFJLF. Although most of Xingan Province annexed to the Mongolian People's Republic, the conference vanished the hope of Mongolian leader, General Choibalsan, to reunite Outer and Inner Mongolia as a Greater Mongolian state.

Japan convened the Mongol Territories Autonomous Political Council in aim to establish an independent Mongol state in Inner Mongolia on January 27, 1946 and attended by the Mongol political leaders and the delegates of Mongol banners from all part of Inner Mongolia. Mönkhtuyaa Balkhiirgol, the leader of pro-Japanese Mongol People Union, elected as the Chairman of MAPC.

Inner Mongolia referred as the Mongol Territory (疆古 Měngjiāng) on its official document between 1946 and 1950 and given its popular "Mengjiang" name from its Chinese official title.

On the meeting of Japanese Nationalist Party Politburo of May 23-29 1946, First Secretary Hotori Etsu emphasized the political goals of the Japanese military administration in the Mongol Territory were "to eliminate the Fascist elements of past Kuomintang government, to restructure the Mongol social system, and to establish a national-democratic state in the Mongol Territory."

In June 1946, the MAPC began to implement the Japanese-inspired policies, such as the agrarian reform and the plan of national industrialization. The Bank of Mengjiang, established on September 1946, was printed the first issue of Mengjiang yuan in January 23, 1947.

In similar move with its neighbor, Manchuria, the Mongol Territory also declared both Mandarin Chinese and Mongolian languages as the co-official languages due to a significant number of Han Chinese population in the Territory.

The Mongol Democratic State established on May 8, 1950 with Mönkhtuyaa Balkhiirgol as its first Prime Minister.