Common Program of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

Adopted by the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on September 29, 1949, referred to as the "Common Program".

In addition to the preface, the text is divided into seven chapters and 60 articles, including the general outline, organs of power, the military system, economic policy, cultural and educational policy, national policy, and foreign policy. It affirmed the victorious achievements of the people's revolution, proclaimed the end of feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism in China and the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic, and stipulated the state and political system of the New China.

It affirms that "The People's Democratic Dictatorship of China is the regime of the People's Democratic United Front of the Chinese working class, peasant class, petty bourgeoisie, national bourgeoisie, and other patriotic democratic elements, based on the workers' and peasants' alliance and led by the working class."

It stipulated the system of people's congresses as the organizational form of power in China; declared the abolition of all privileges of imperialism in China; confiscated bureaucratic capital and carried out land reform; and set forth the basic policies of the New China and the basic rights and duties of citizens.

It is a program for the founding of the country jointly formulated by representatives of democratic parties, people's organizations, and people of all nationalities and circles under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and is the common goal of struggle and the political basis for unified action of the people of the country within a certain period of time, and served as a provisional constitution before the formal promulgation of the Constitution.