After the People's Liberation Army's million-strong division crossed the Yangtze River, the Chinese Revolutionary War quickly won a nationwide victory.
All the conditions are ripe for the convening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the establishment of a democratic coalition**.
Under these circumstances, the CPC has actively organized and prepared for the convening of a new CPPCC.
Beginning in August 1948, after nearly 10 months of talks between the leaders of the Communist Party of China and the democrats from all walks of life who had arrived in the liberated areas one after another, they reached unanimous views on such fundamental issues as opposing imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism, overthrowing the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, and establishing a new democratic state.
On June 15, 1949, the first plenary meeting of the Preparatory Committee of the New Political Consultative Conference was held in Beiping, and 21 people including Li Jishen were elected to form the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Committee.
The Standing Committee elected *** as the director, Li Jishen, Shen Junru, Guo Moruo, and Chen Shutong as the deputy directors, and Li Weihan as the secretary general (later replaced by Lin Boqu due to illness).
The meeting decided to set up six groups under the leadership of the Standing Committee to accomplish the following tasks:
1) Proposed units to participate in the new CPPCC session and the number of their representatives.
2) Drafting the organizational regulations of the new CPPCC.
(iii) Drafting of the Common Programme.
4) Formulate the People's Republic of China's ** plan.
5) Drafting of a manifesto.
6) Draw up a plan for the national flag, national anthem and national emblem, and make specific preparations for the convening of the new CPPCC and the establishment of a democratic alliance.
After a series of preparatory activities, on September 21-30, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was held in Huairen Hall, Zhongnanhai.
Present at the meeting were representatives of the CPC, various democratic parties, various people's organizations, democratic personages without party affiliation, various regions, nationalities, overseas Chinese, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The meeting discussed and adopted the "Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference," the "People's **People's ** Organization Law of the People's Republic of China," and the "Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference."
The meeting decided: The capital of the People's Republic of China will be set in Beiping, Beiping will be changed to Beijing, the year of the Common Era will be adopted, the "March of the Volunteers" will be used as the national anthem, and the national flag will be the five-star red flag.
The meeting elected *** as the chairman of the **people**, **Song Qingling, Li Jishen, Zhang Lan, Gao Gang as vice chairmen, ** and other 56 people as members to form the **people's committee.
At the same time, the first 180-member National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was also elected.
** Chaired the meeting and made opening statements. He vividly and concisely described the historical conditions and tasks of the conference.
He said: Our meeting is a meeting of the great unity of the people of the whole country, and the current Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is being held on a completely new basis; it has the nature of representing the people of the whole country, and it has won the trust and support of the people of the whole country.
Therefore, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference declared itself to carry out the functions and powers of the National People's Congress".
** Solemnly declared: "The Chinese, who account for 1 4 of the total number of human beings, have since stood up."
He proudly noted:
We united to defeat the internal and external oppressors and proclaim the founding of the People's Republic of China with the People's Liberation War and the Great People's Revolution.
Our nation will no longer be an insulted nation, we have stood up, our revolution has won the sympathy and cheers of the great masses of the people of the world, and our friends are all over the world".
** Finally said with pride:
We are convinced that all difficulties will be overcome by the heroic struggle of the people of the whole country, and that those internal and external reactionaries will tremble before us, and let them say that we cannot do this or that, and that the indomitable efforts of the Chinese people will surely steadily achieve their goals."
Almost every sentence of the opening speech provoked thunderous applause from the audience. On September 30, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference closed. The declaration issued by the congress solemnly proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China to the whole world.
On October 1, the People's Committee held its first meeting at the Qinzheng Hall in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, and the chairman and vice chairman announced their inauguration.
The meeting elected Lin Boqu as secretary general of the People's Committee, appointed *** as premier of the Government Council, ** as chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commission, and ** as commander-in-chief of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The meeting decided to accept the "Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" as the policy of administration of the people.
The meeting announced to all countries in the world that the **people of the People's Republic of China** are the only legitimate ** representing the Chinese people** and are willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign country on the basis of the principles of equality, mutual benefit, and mutual respect for territorial sovereignty.
On the afternoon of the same day, 300,000 people from all walks of life in Beijing gathered in Tiananmen Square to hold a grand founding ceremony.
**On the tower of Tiananmen Square, it was solemnly proclaimed that the People's Republic of China **People** was established.
Then a military parade was held, and the commander-in-chief inspected the troops by car and issued an order from the headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on the rapid elimination of the remnants of the Kuomintang army and the liberation of all unliberated territory.
The founding of the People's Republic of China announced the demise of China and ended China's more than 100 years of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
It marked the three-and-a-half-year-long strategic decisive battle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which ended with the defeat of the Chinese Kuomintang on the mainland and the victory of the Communist Party of China on the mainland.
The collapse of the rule of the Chinese Kuomintang on the mainland and the establishment of the ruling position of the Communist Party of China on the mainland brought about an unprecedented and tremendous turning point in the history of KMT-CPC relations.
After the Chinese Kuomintang withdrew from Taiwan, with the support of the United States, it used Taiwan as a base for the "**mainland". Since then, the relations between the KMT and the CPC have entered a new historical stage of confrontation across the strait.
War of Liberation [No. 43].
On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed.
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