The Founding of the People’s Republic of China

China's New Democratic Revolution won a great victory, the semi-colonial and semi-feudal era came to an end, and China became the symbol of a new democratic country. After that, the history of China entered a new era in which the people are the masters of the country, and the development of the Chinese nation opened a new historical era. With the victory of the War of Liberation, the task of establishing a new China was on the agenda. At the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held in September 1948, Mao Zedong elaborated on the state and regime of the New China to be established.

On September 21, 1949, Mao Zedong pointed out in his opening speech at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference that "we have closed our ranks and defeated both domestic and foreign oppressors through the People's War of Liberation and the great people's revolution, and now we are proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China.”

The “Preamble to the Common Programme of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference”, adopted on September 29, stated: "The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, representing the will of the people of the whole country, proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China and is organizing the people's own central government.”

On September 30, in his closing speech to the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Zhu De stated that "we are all united in declaring the establishment of the People's Republic of China." The “Declaration of the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference”, adopted on the same day, also stated: "The People's Republic of China has now been proclaimed and the Chinese people have their own central government.”

At 2 p.m. on October 1, 1949, the Committee of the Central People's Government held its first meeting, and the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and members of the Central People's Government were inaugurated. At 3 p.m., the founding ceremony was held, during which 300,000 soldiers and civilians gathered in Tian’anmen Square to attend the founding ceremony. Secretary General of the Central People's Government Lin Boqu announced the beginning of the ceremony, and Chairman of the Central People's Government Mao Zedong solemnly proclaimed, "The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China is founded today!" The military band played the national anthem March of the Volunteer Army, Chairman Mao Zedong pressed the electric button and raised the first five-star red flag, and read the "Proclamation of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China", solemnly proclaiming to the whole world that the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing the whole people of the People's Republic of China.

Commander Zhu De inspected the honor guards, and the navy and air forces of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, read out the “Order of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Headquarters”, and ordered the PLA to quickly eliminate the remnants of the reactionary army of the KMT, and liberate all unliberated territories, while eliminating the all other counter-revolutionary bandits and suppressing all their resistance and mischief.

The founding of the People's Republic of China marked the triumphant completion of the basic historical task of national independence and people's liberation for which countless people with glorious ideals struggled since modern times in China, and thus began a new path of struggle for realizing the basic task of national prosperity and wealth and common prosperity of the people. The founding of the People's Republic of China fundamentally put an end to the history of the Chinese nation, which had suffered from imperialist aggression and oppression for more than 100 years, and enabled China to change its semi-colonial nature and become a truly independent and sovereign country, and the great national spirit of the Chinese people was greatly invigorated and the Chinese nation has since stood on its own in a brand-new posture in the forest of the world. With the founding of the People's Republic of China, a people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the workers' and peasants' alliance was established, fundamentally ending the history of a very small number of exploiters ruling over, and the working people truly became the masters of the new country and society, which was a fundamental change in the social and political status of the Chinese people.

The founding of the People's Republic of China has fundamentally changed the situation of the old China, which was divided into many parts, rapidly achieved and consolidated national unity throughout the country (except Taiwan and other islands), achieved and consolidated the great unity of the people of all nationalities, and realized and consolidated the great unity of workers, peasants, intellectuals and all other classes of people in the country, and injected a strong national cohesion for the establishment of a new China which is independent, unified, democratic and prosperous.

The founding of the People's Republic of China was a historical turning point in China's transition from the decline of modern times to its prosperity, and it created the prerequisites for China to move forward in the socialist path and the goal of modernizing the country under the leadership of the CPC.

The founding of the People's Republic of China was of worldwide significance in that it established a people's democratic system in a large Eastern country with about a quarter of the world's population and the third largest territory in the world, and will gradually establish a socialist system, which greatly strengthened the power of peaceful democratic and socialist camp in the world for the second time, and changed the contrast of forces in the international Cold War pattern after the World War II, thus having a wide and far-reaching impact on the world and making a historic contribution to the cause of peace, democracy, justice and progress of humankind.

The founding of the People's Republic of China marked a fundamental change in the status of the CPC, which began to change from a Party that led the people in their struggle to seize the whole country's political power to a Party that led the people to seize the whole country's political power to a Party that led the people to take control of national power, carry out socialist revolution and construction, and rule for a long time.

The founding of the People's Republic of China was the victory of Marxism-Leninism in China, the theoretical achievement of the combining the universal principles of Marxism-Leninism and the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution—the victory of Mao Zedong Thought, as the inevitable result of the Sinicization of Marxism and the further creation of the conditions for the Sinicization of Marxism.