Chapter 116 Long live the great unity of the Chinese people[1]

(September 30, 1949) Fellow countrymen: The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has successfully completed its tasks. This meeting included representatives from all the democratic parties, people's organizations, the People's Liberation Army, all regions, all ethnic groups, overseas Chinese and other patriotic democrats in China. unity. This great unity of the people of the whole country was achieved by the Chinese people and the People's Liberation Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China after a long period of heroic struggle and victory over the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek Kuomintang government assisted by U.S. imperialism.For more than a hundred years, the advanced elements of the Chinese people, among whom the outstanding ones are like the great revolutionary Sun Yat-sen who led the Revolution of 1911, led the broad masses of the people in constant struggle in order to overthrow the oppression of imperialism and the Chinese reactionary government. , until now, finally reached the goal.As we meet, the Chinese people have defeated their enemies, changed the face of China, and established the People's Republic of China.Our 475 million Chinese people have now stood up, and the future of our nation is infinitely bright.

Under the leadership of the people's leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, our conference was of one mind and in accordance with the principles of new democracy, formulated the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, formulated the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, and formulated the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Common Program determined the capital of the People's Republic of China to be Beijing, established the national flag of the People's Republic of China as the five-star red flag, adopted the March of the Volunteers as the current national anthem, decided that the year of the People's Republic of China adopts the world AD, and elected the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The National Committee of the meeting elected the Central People's Government Committee of the People's Republic of China.The history of China has since opened up a new era.

My fellow countrymen, the People's Republic of China has now been proclaimed, and the Chinese people already have their own central government.This government will implement the people's democratic dictatorship throughout China in accordance with the common program.It will command the People's Liberation Army to carry the revolutionary war to the end, wipe out the remaining enemy troops, liberate the territory of the whole country, and complete the great cause of unifying China.It will lead the people of the whole country to overcome all difficulties, carry out large-scale economic construction and cultural construction, sweep away the poverty and ignorance left over from the old China, and gradually improve the people's material life and cultural life.It will defend the interests of the people and suppress the conspiracies of all counter-revolutionaries.It will strengthen the people's land, sea and air force, consolidate national defense, defend territorial integrity, and oppose aggression by any imperialist country.It will unite all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries, nations and peoples, first of all, unite the Soviet Union and the new democracies as their allies, jointly oppose the conspiracy of the imperialists to provoke war, and strive for lasting peace in the world.

My fellow countrymen, we should get more organized.We should organize the vast majority of the people in China into political, military, economic, cultural and other organizations, overcome the loose and disorganized state of old China, and use the great collective strength of the people to support the People's Government and the People's Liberation Army. Build an independent, democratic, peaceful, unified and prosperous new China. The people's heroes who died for the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution are immortal! Long live the great unity of the Chinese people!

Long live the People's Republic of China! Long live the Central People's Government! According to "People's Daily" published on October 1, 1949. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is the conference manifesto drafted by Mao Zedong entrusted by the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.Among them, the phrase "under the leadership of the people's leader Chairman Mao Zedong" was proposed by the delegates when the meeting passed the declaration.