Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung:Vol.V The Period of the Socialist Revolution and Socialist Reconstruction (1) The Chinese People Have Stood Up!(September 21,1949) Long Live the Great Unity of the Chinese People!(September 30.1949) Eternal Glory to the Heroes of the People!(September 30,1949) Always Keep to the Style of Plain Living and Hard Struggle (October 26.1949) Request for Opinions on the Tactics for Dealing With Rich Peasants(March 12,1950) Fight for a Fundamental Turn for the Better in the Nation's Financial and Economic Situation June 6.1950) Don't Hit Out in All Directions (June 6,1950) Be a True Revolitionary (June 23,1950) You Are Models for the Whole Nation (September 25,1950) Order to the Chinese People's Volunteers (October 8,1950) The Chinese People's Volunteers Should Cherish Every Hill,Every River,Every Tree and Every Blade of Grass in Korea (January 19,1951) Main Points of the Resolution Adopted at the Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (February 18,1951) I. Twenty-two Months for Preparation II.Propaganda and Education Campaign for Resisting U.S.Aggression and Aiding Korea III.Agrarian Reform IV. Suppression of Counter-Revolutionaries V Urban Work VI.Party Consolidation and Party Building VII.United Front Work VIII.Rectification Movement The Party's Mass Line Must Be Followed in Supressing Counter-Revolutionaries(May /95/) Strike Surely,Accurately and Relentlessly in Supressing Counter-Revolutionaries (December 1950-September 1951)
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Vol. V The Period of the Socialist Revolution and Socialist Reconstruction (1) The Chinese People Have Stood Up! (September 21, 1949) Long Live the Great Unity of the Chinese People! (September 30, 1949) Eternal Glory to the Heroes of the People!(September 30, 1949) Always Keep to the Style of Plain Living and Hard Struggle (October 26, 1949) Request for Opinions on the Tactics for Dealing With Rich Peasants(March 12, 1950) Fight for a Fundamental Turn for the Better in the Nation's Financial and Economic Situation (June 6, 1950) Don't Hit Out in All Directions(June 6, 1950) Be a True Revolitionary (June 23, 1950) You Are Models for the Whole Nation (September 25, 1950) Order to the Chinese People's Volunteers(October 8, 1950) The Chinese People's Volunteers Should Cherish Every Hill, Every River, Every Tree and Every Blade of Grass in Korea (January 19, 1951) Main Points of the Resolution Adopted at the Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (February 18, 1951) I. Twenty-two Months for Preparation II. Propaganda and Education Campaign for Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aiding Korea III. Agrarian Reform IV. Suppression of Counter-Revolutionaries V. Urban Work VI. Party Consolidation and Party Building VII. United Front Work VIII. Rectification Movement The Party's Mass Line Must Be Followed in Supressing Counter-Revolutionaries(May 1951) Strike Surely, Accurately and Relentlessly in Supressing Counter-Revolutionaries (December 1950- September 1951)
Pay Serious Attention to the Discussion of the Film The Life Wu Hsun (May 20,1951) Great Victories in Three Mass Movements (October 23,1951) On the Struggle Against the "Three Evils"and the "Five Evils"(November 1951-March 1952) Take Mutual Aid and Co-Operation in Agriculture as a Major Task (December 15,1951) New Year's Day Message (January 1,1952) On the Policies for Our Work in Tibet-Directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (April 6,1952) The Contradiction Between the Working Class and the Bourgeoisie is the Principal Contradiction in China (June 6.1952) Let Us Unite and Clearly Distinguish Between Ourselves and the Enemy (August 4,1952) Hail the Signal Victory of the Chinese People's Volunteers!(October 24.1952) Combat Bureaucracy.Commandism and Violations of the Law and Discipline (January 5,1953) Criticize Han Chaunvinism (March 16.1953) Solve the Problem of the "Five Excesses"(March 19.1953) Liu Shao-chi and Yang Shang-kun Criticized for Breach of Discipline in Issuing Documents in the Name of the Central Committeee without Authorization(May 19,1953) Refute Right Deviationist Views that Depart from the General Line June /5.1953) The Youth League in Its Work Must Take the Characteristics of Youth Into Consideration June 30. 1953) On State Capitalism (July 9.1953) The Party's General Line for the Transition Period (August 1953) Combat Bourgeois Ideas in the Party (August 12,1953) The Only Road for the Transformation of Capitalist Industry and Comme (September 7,1953) Our Great Victory in the War to Resist U.S.Aggression and Aid Korea and Our Future Tasks (September 12,1953) Criticism of Liang Shu-ming's Reactionary Ideas (September 16-18,1953)
Pay Serious Attention to the Discussion of the Film The Life Wu Hsun (May 20, 1951) Great Victories in Three Mass Movements(October 23, 1951) On the Struggle Against the "Three Evils" and the "Five Evils" (November 1951-March 1952) Take Mutual Aid and Co-Operation in Agriculture as a Major Task (December 15, 1951) New Year's Day Message (January 1, 1952) On the Policies for Our Work in Tibet - Directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (April 6, 1952) The Contradiction Between the Working Class and the Bourgeoisie is the Principal Contradiction in China (June 6, 1952) Let Us Unite and Clearly Distinguish Between Ourselves and the Enemy (August 4, 1952) Hail the Signal Victory of the Chinese People's Volunteers! (October 24, 1952) Combat Bureaucracy, Commandism and Violations of the Law and Discipline (January 5, 1953) Criticize Han Chaunvinism (March 16, 1953) Solve the Problem of the "Five Excesses" (March 19, 1953) Liu Shao-chi and Yang Shang-kun Criticized for Breach of Discipline in Issuing Documents in the Name of the Central Committeee without Authorization (May 19, 1953) Refute Right Deviationist Views that Depart from the General Line (June 15, 1953) The Youth League in Its Work Must Take the Characteristics of Youth Into Consideration (June 30, 1953) On State Capitalism (July 9, 1953) The Party's General Line for the Transition Period (August 1953) Combat Bourgeois Ideas in the Party (August 12, 1953) The Only Road for the Transformation of Capitalist Industry and Comme (September 7, 1953) Our Great Victory in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and Our Future Tasks (September 12, 1953) Criticism of Liang Shu-ming's Reactionary Ideas(September 16-18, 1953)
Two Talks on Mutual Aid and Co-Operation in Agriculture (October and November 1953) I.The Talk of October 15 II.The Talk of November 4 On the Draft Constitutionon of the People's Republic of China June 14.1954) Strive to Build a Great Socialist Country (September 15,1954) Letter Concerning the Study of The Dream of the Red Chamber (October 16.1954) The Chinese People Cannot be Cowed by the Atom Bomb (January 28.1955) Speeches at the National Conference of the Communist Party of China (March 1955) Opening Speech Concluding Speech I.Evaluation of the Present Conference II.On the First Five-Year Plan III.On the Anti-Party Alliance of Kao Kang and Jao Shu-shih IV.On the Current Situation V.Strive for the Successful Convocation of the Eighth National Congress of the Party In Refutation of "Uniformity of Public Opinion"(May 24.1955) Preface and Editor's Notes to Material on the Counter-Revolutionary Hu Feng Clique (May and June 1955) Preface Editor's Notes (Selections) On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture July 31,/955) Rely on Party and League Members and Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants in the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture (September 7,1955) The Debate on the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture and the Current Class Struggle (October 11,1955) I.The Relationship Between Agricultural Co-operation and the Transformation of Capitalist Industry and Commerce II.A Summing-up of the Debate on the Question of Cooperation III.On the Question of Comprehensive Planning and More Effective Leadership IV.On Ideological Struggle
Two Talks on Mutual Aid and Co-Operation in Agriculture (October and November 1953) I. The Talk of October 15 II. The Talk of November 4 On the Draft Constitutionon of the People's Republic of China (June 14, 1954) Strive to Build a Great Socialist Country (September 15, 1954) Letter Concerning the Study of The Dream of the Red Chamber (October 16, 1954) The Chinese People Cannot be Cowed by the Atom Bomb (January 28, 1955) Speeches at the National Conference of the Communist Party of China (March 1955) Opening Speech Concluding Speech I. Evaluation of the Present Conference II. On the First Five-Year Plan III. On the Anti-Party Alliance of Kao Kang and Jao Shu-shih IV. On the Current Situation V. Strive for the Successful Convocation of the Eighth National Congress of the Party In Refutation of "Uniformity of Public Opinion" (May 24, 1955) Preface and Editor's Notes to Material on the Counter-Revolutionary Hu Feng Clique (May and June 1955) Preface Editor's Notes (Selections) On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture (July 31, 1955) Rely on Party and League Members and Poor and Lower-Middle Peasants in the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture (September 7, 1955) The Debate on the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture and the Current Class Struggle (October 11, 1955) I. The Relationship Between Agricultural Co-operation and the Transformation of Capitalist Industry and Commerce II. A Summing-up of the Debate on the Question of Cooperation III. On the Question of Comprehensive Planning and More Effective Leadership IV. On Ideological Struggle
V.Other Questions Prefaces to Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside (September and December 1955) Preface I PrefaceⅡ Editor's Notes from Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside (September and December 1955) Request for Opinions on the Seventeen-Article Document Concerning Agriculture (December 21, 1955) Speed up the Socialist Transformation of Handicrafts(March 5,1956) On the Ten Major Relationships (April 25,1956) I.The Relationship Between Heavy Industry on the One Hand and Light Industry and Agriculture on the Other II.The Relationship Between Industry in the Coastal Regions and Industry in the Interior III.The Relationship Between Economic Construction and Defense Construction IV.The Relationship Between the State,the Units of Production and the Producers V.The Relationship Between the Central and the Local Authorities VI.The Relationship Between the Han Nationality and the Minority Nationalities VII.The Relationship Between Party and Non-Party VIII.The Relationship Between Revolution and Counter-Revolution IX.The Relationship Between Right and Wrong X.The Relationship Between China and Other Countries U.S.Imperialism is a Paper Tiger (July 14.1956) Strengthen Party Unity and Carry Forward Party Traditions (August 30.1956) Some Experiences in Our Party's History (September 25,1956) In Commemoration of Dr.Sun Yat-sen (November 12,1956) Speech at the Second Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (November 15.1956) Talks at a Conference of Secretaries of Provincial,Municipal and Autonomous Region Party Committees (January 1957) I.The Talk of January 18 II.The Talk of January 27 On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27,1957)
V. Other Questions Prefaces to Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside (September and December 1955) Preface I Preface II Editor's Notes from Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside (September and December 1955) Request for Opinions on the Seventeen-Article Document Concerning Agriculture (December 21, 1955) Speed up the Socialist Transformation of Handicrafts(March 5, 1956) On the Ten Major Relationships(April 25, 1956) I. The Relationship Between Heavy Industry on the One Hand and Light Industry and Agriculture on the Other II. The Relationship Between Industry in the Coastal Regions and Industry in the Interior III. The Relationship Between Economic Construction and Defense Construction IV. The Relationship Between the State, the Units of Production and the Producers V. The Relationship Between the Central and the Local Authorities VI. The Relationship Between the Han Nationality and the Minority Nationalities VII. The Relationship Between Party and Non-Party VIII. The Relationship Between Revolution and Counter-Revolution IX. The Relationship Between Right and Wrong X. The Relationship Between China and Other Countries U.S. Imperialism is a Paper Tiger (July 14, 1956) Strengthen Party Unity and Carry Forward Party Traditions(August 30, 1956) Some Experiences in Our Party's History (September 25, 1956) In Commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (November 12, 1956) Speech at the Second Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (November 15, 1956) Talks at a Conference of Secretaries of Provincial, Municipal and Autonomous Region Party Committees(January 1957) I. The Talk of January 18 II. The Talk of January 27 On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957)
L.Two Types of Contradictions Differing in Nature II.The Question of Eliminating Counter-Revolutionaries III.The Question of the Co-operative Transformation of Agriculture IV.The Question of the Industrialists and Businessmen V.The Question of the Intellectuals VI.The Question of the Minority Nationalities VII.Over-all Consideration and Proper Arrangement VIII.On "Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom.Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend"and "Long-Term Coexistence and Mutual Supervision" IX.On the Question of Disturbances Created by Small Numbers of People X.Can Bad Things Be Turned into Good Things? XI.On Practicing Economy XII.China's Path to Industrialization Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work (March 12. 1957) Persevere in Plain Living and Hard Struggle,Maintain Close Ties with the Masses(March 1957) Things Are Beginning to Change (May 15,1957) The Chinese Communist Party is the Core of Leadership of the While Chinese Party (May 25.1957) Muster Our Forces to Repulse the Rightists'Wild Attacks une 8.1957) Wen Hui Pao'sBourgeois Orientation Should Be Criticized (July 1,1957) Beat Back the Attacks of the Bourgeois Rightists July 9,1957) The Situation in the Summer of 1957 (July 1957) Be Activists in Promoting the Revolution (October 9,1957) Have Firm Faith in the Majority of the People October 13,1957) A Dialectical Approach to Inner Party Unity (November 18,1957) All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers (November 18.1957) Further Reading: Hua Guofeng:Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End:A Study of Volume V of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung(1977)
I. Two Types of Contradictions Differing in Nature II. The Question of Eliminating Counter-Revolutionaries III. The Question of the Co-operative Transformation of Agriculture IV. The Question of the Industrialists and Businessmen V. The Question of the Intellectuals VI. The Question of the Minority Nationalities VII. Over-all Consideration and Proper Arrangement VIII. On "Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" and "Long-Term Coexistence and Mutual Supervision" IX. On the Question of Disturbances Created by Small Numbers of People X. Can Bad Things Be Turned into Good Things? XI. On Practicing Economy XII. China's Path to Industrialization Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work (March 12, 1957) Persevere in Plain Living and Hard Struggle, Maintain Close Ties with the Masses(March 1957) Things Are Beginning to Change (May 15, 1957) The Chinese Communist Party is the Core of Leadership of the While Chinese Party (May 25, 1957) Muster Our Forces to Repulse the Rightists' Wild Attacks(June 8, 1957) Wen Hui Pao'sBourgeois Orientation Should Be Criticized (July 1, 1957) Beat Back the Attacks of the Bourgeois Rightists(July 9, 1957) The Situation in the Summer of 1957 (July 1957) Be Activists in Promoting the Revolution (October 9, 1957) Have Firm Faith in the Majority of the People (October 13, 1957) A Dialectical Approach to Inner Party Unity (November 18, 1957) All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers(November 18, 1957) Further Reading: Hua Guofeng: Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End: A Study of Volume V of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung (1977)
Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project. HTML revised 2004 by Marxists.org Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE STOOD UP! September 21,1949 [Opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.] Fellow Delegates, The Political Consultative Conference so eagerly awaited by the whole nation is herewith inaugurated. Our conference is composed of more than six hundred delegates,representing all the democratic parties and people's organizations of China,the People's Liberation Army,the various regions and nationalities of the country and the overseas Chinese.This shows that ours is a conference embodying the great unity of the people of the whole country. It is because we have defeated the reactionary Kuomintang government backed by U.S.imperialism that this great unity of the whole people has been achieved.In a little more than three years the heroic Chinese People's Liberation Army,an army such as the world has seldom seen,crushed all the offensives launched by the several million troops of the U.S.-supported reactionary Kuomintang government and turned to the counter-offensive and the offensive.At present the field armies of the People's Liberation Army,several million strong,have pushed the war to areas near Taiwan, Kwangtung,Kwangsi,Kweichow,Szechuan and Sinkiang,and the great majority of the Chinese people have won liberation.In a little more than three years the people of the whole country have closed their ranks,rallied to support the People's Liberation Army,fought the enemy and won basic victory.And it is on this foundation that the present People's Political Consultative Conference is convened
Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project. HTML revised 2004 by Marxists.org Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE STOOD UP! September 21, 1949 [Opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.] Fellow Delegates, The Political Consultative Conference so eagerly awaited by the whole nation is herewith inaugurated. Our conference is composed of more than six hundred delegates, representing all the democratic parties and people's organizations of China, the People's Liberation Army, the various regions and nationalities of the country and the overseas Chinese. This shows that ours is a conference embodying the great unity of the people of the whole country. It is because we have defeated the reactionary Kuomintang government backed by U.S. imperialism that this great unity of the whole people has been achieved. In a little more than three years the heroic Chinese People's Liberation Army, an army such as the world has seldom seen, crushed all the offensives launched by the several million troops of the U.S.-supported reactionary Kuomintang government and turned to the counter-offensive and the offensive. At present the field armies of the People's Liberation Army, several million strong, have pushed the war to areas near Taiwan, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan and Sinkiang, and the great majority of the Chinese people have won liberation. In a little more than three years the people of the whole country have closed their ranks, rallied to support the People's Liberation Army, fought the enemy and won basic victory. And it is on this foundation that the present People's Political Consultative Conference is convened
Our conference is called the Political Consultative Conference because some three years ago we held a Political Consultative Conference with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang.]The results of that conference were sabotaged by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and its accomplices:nevertheless the conference left an indelible impression on the people.It showed that nothing in the interest of the people could be accomplished together with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang,the running dog of imperialism,and its accomplices.Even when resolutions were reluctantly adopted,it was of no avail,for as soon as the time was ripe,they tore them up and started a ruthless war against the people.The only gain from that conference was the profound lesson it taught the people that there is absolutely no room for compromise with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang,the running dog of imperialism,and its accomplices-overthrow these enemies or be oppressed and slaughtered by them,either one or the other,there is no other choice.In a little more than three years the Chinese people,led by the Chinese Communist Party,have quickly awakened and organized themselves into a nation-wide united front against imperialism,feudalism,bureaucrat-capitalism and their general representative,the reactionary Kuomintang government,supported the People's War of Liberation, basically defeated the reactionary Kuomintang government,overthrown the rule of imperialism in China and restored the Political Consultative Conference. The present Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is convened on an entirely new foundation;it is representative of the people of the whole country and enjoys their trust and support. Therefore,the conference proclaims that it will exercise the functions and powers of a National People's Congress.In accordance with its agenda,the conference will enact the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and the Common Programme of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference;it will elect the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Central People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China;it will adopt the national flag and national emblem of the People's Republic of China;and it will decide on the seat of the capital of the People's Republic of China and adopt the chronological system in use in most countries of the world. Fellow Delegates,we are all convinced that our work will go down in the history of mankind, demonstrating that the Chinese people,comprising one quarter of humanity,have now stood up. The Chinese have always been a great,courageous and industrious nation;it is only in modern times that they have fallen behind.And that was due entirely to oppression and exploitation by foreign imperialism and domestic reactionary governments.For over a century our forefathers never stopped waging unyielding struggles against domestic and foreign oppressors,including the Revolution of 1911 led by Dr.Sun Yat-sen,our great forerunner in the Chinese revolution.Our forefathers enjoined us to carry out their unfulfilled will.And we have acted accordingly.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.From now on our nation will belong to the community of the peace- loving and freedom-loving nations of the world and work courageously and industriously to foster its own civilization and well-being and at the same time to promote world peace and freedom.Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation.We have stood up.Our revolution has won the sympathy and acclaim of the people of all countries.We have friends all over the world
Our conference is called the Political Consultative Conference because some three years ago we held a Political Consultative Conference with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang.[1] The results of that conference were sabotaged by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and its accomplices; nevertheless the conference left an indelible impression on the people. It showed that nothing in the interest of the people could be accomplished together with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, the running dog of imperialism, and its accomplices. Even when resolutions were reluctantly adopted, it was of no avail, for as soon as the time was ripe, they tore them up and started a ruthless war against the people. The only gain from that conference was the profound lesson it taught the people that there is absolutely no room for compromise with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, the running dog of imperialism, and its accomplices - overthrow these enemies or be oppressed and slaughtered by them, either one or the other, there is no other choice. In a little more than three years the Chinese people, led by the Chinese Communist Party, have quickly awakened and organized themselves into a nation-wide united front against imperialism, feudalism, bureaucrat-capitalism and their general representative, the reactionary Kuomintang government, supported the People's War of Liberation, basically defeated the reactionary Kuomintang government, overthrown the rule of imperialism in China and restored the Political Consultative Conference. The present Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is convened on an entirely new foundation; it is representative of the people of the whole country and enjoys their trust and support. Therefore, the conference proclaims that it will exercise the functions and powers of a National People's Congress. In accordance with its agenda, the conference will enact the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and the Common Programme of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; it will elect the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Central People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China; it will adopt the national flag and national emblem of the People's Republic of China; and it will decide on the seat of the capital of the People's Republic of China and adopt the chronological system in use in most countries of the world. Fellow Delegates, we are all convinced that our work will go down in the history of mankind, demonstrating that the Chinese people, comprising one quarter of humanity, have now stood up. The Chinese have always been a great, courageous and industrious nation; it is only in modern times that they have fallen behind. And that was due entirely to oppression and exploitation by foreign imperialism and domestic reactionary governments. For over a century our forefathers never stopped waging unyielding struggles against domestic and foreign oppressors, including the Revolution of 1911 led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, our great forerunner in the Chinese revolution. Our forefathers enjoined us to carry out their unfulfilled will. And we have acted accordingly. 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. From now on our nation will belong to the community of the peaceloving and freedom-loving nations of the world and work courageously and industriously to foster its own civilization and well-being and at the same time to promote world peace and freedom. Ours will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up. Our revolution has won the sympathy and acclaim of the people of all countries. We have friends all over the world
Our revolutionary work is not completed,the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolutionary movement are still forging ahead and we must keep up our efforts.The imperialists and the domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat lying down:they will fight to the last ditch.After there is peace and order throughout the country,they are sure to engage in sabotage and create disturbances by one means or another and every day and every minute they will try to stage a come-back.This is inevitable and beyond all doubt,and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance. Our state system,the people's democratic dictatorship,is a powerful weapon for safeguarding the fruits of victory of the people's revolution and for thwarting the plots of domestic and foreign enemies for restoration,and this weapon we must firmly grasp.Internationally,we must unite with all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries and peoples,and first of all with the Soviet Union and the New Democracies,so that we shall not stand alone in our struggle to safeguard these fruits of victory and to thwart the plots of domestic and foreign enemies for restoration.As long as we persist in the people's democratic dictatorship and unite with our foreign friends,we shall always be victorious. The people's democratic dictatorship and solidarity with our foreign friends will enable us to accomplish our work of construction rapidly.We are already confronted with the task of nation- wide economic construction.We have very favourable conditions:a population of 475 million people and a territory of 9,600,000 square kilometres.There are indeed difficulties ahead,and a great many too.But we firmly believe that by heroic struggle the people of the country will surmount them all.The Chinese people have rich experience in overcoming difficulties.If our forefathers,and we also,could weather long years of extreme difficulty and defeat powerful domestic and foreign reactionaries,why can't we now,after victory,build a prosperous and flourishing country?As long as we keep to our style of plain living and hard struggle,as long as we stand united and as long as we persist in the people's democratic dictatorship and unite with our foreign friends,we shall be able to win speedy victory on the economic front. An upsurge in economic construction is bound to be followed by an upsurge of construction in the cultural sphere.The era in which the Chinese people were regarded as uncivilized is now ended.We shall emerge in the world as a nation with an advanced culture. Our national defence will be consolidated and no imperialists will ever again be allowed to invade our land.Our people's armed forces must be maintained and developed with the heroic and steeled People's Liberation Army as the foundation.We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy. Let the domestic and foreign reactionaries tremble before us!Let them say we are no good at this and no good at that.By our own indomitable efforts we the Chinese people will unswervingly reach our goal. The heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution shall live for ever in our memory!
Our revolutionary work is not completed, the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolutionary movement are still forging ahead and we must keep up our efforts. The imperialists and the domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat lying down; they will fight to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they are sure to engage in sabotage and create disturbances by one means or another and every day and every minute they will try to stage a come-back. This is inevitable and beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance. Our state system, the people's democratic dictatorship, is a powerful weapon for safeguarding the fruits of victory of the people's revolution and for thwarting the plots of domestic and foreign enemies for restoration, and this weapon we must firmly grasp. Internationally, we must unite with all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries and peoples, and first of all with the Soviet Union and the New Democracies, so that we shall not stand alone in our struggle to safeguard these fruits of victory and to thwart the plots of domestic and foreign enemies for restoration. As long as we persist in the people's democratic dictatorship and unite with our foreign friends, we shall always be victorious. The people's democratic dictatorship and solidarity with our foreign friends will enable us to accomplish our work of construction rapidly. We are already confronted with the task of nationwide economic construction. We have very favourable conditions: a population of 475 million people and a territory of 9,600,000 square kilometres. There are indeed difficulties ahead, and a great many too. But we firmly believe that by heroic struggle the people of the country will surmount them all. The Chinese people have rich experience in overcoming difficulties. If our forefathers, and we also, could weather long years of extreme difficulty and defeat powerful domestic and foreign reactionaries, why can't we now, after victory, build a prosperous and flourishing country? As long as we keep to our style of plain living and hard struggle, as long as we stand united and as long as we persist in the people's democratic dictatorship and unite with our foreign friends, we shall be able to win speedy victory on the economic front. An upsurge in economic construction is bound to be followed by an upsurge of construction in the cultural sphere. The era in which the Chinese people were regarded as uncivilized is now ended. We shall emerge in the world as a nation with an advanced culture. Our national defence will be consolidated and no imperialists will ever again be allowed to invade our land. Our people's armed forces must be maintained and developed with the heroic and steeled People's Liberation Army as the foundation. We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy. Let the domestic and foreign reactionaries tremble before us! Let them say we are no good at this and no good at that. By our own indomitable efforts we the Chinese people will unswervingly reach our goal. The heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution shall live for ever in our memory!
Hail the victory of the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution! Hail the founding of the People's Republic of China! Hail the triumph of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference! NOTES 1."Smash Chiang Kai-shek's Offensive by a War of Self-Defence",Note 2,SelectedWorks of Mao Tsetung,Vol.IV. Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project. HTML revised 2004 by Marxists.org Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung LONG LIVE THE GREAT UNITY OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE! September 30,1949 [The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference entrusted Comrade Mao Tsetung with the drafting of this declaration.On the proposal of the delegates the phrase "under the leadership of Chairman Mao Tsetung,the leader of our people"was inserted in the declaration at the time of its adoption.] Fellow-Countrymen, The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has successfully fulfilled its tasks. This session has been attended by delegates from all the democratic parties and people's organizations of China,the People's Liberation Army,the various regions and nationalities of the country,the overseas Chinese and other patriotic democrats;it represents the will of the people of the whole country and demonstrates their unprecedented great unity
Hail the victory of the People's War of Liberation and the people's revolution! Hail the founding of the People's Republic of China! Hail the triumph of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference! NOTES 1. "Smash Chiang Kai-shek's Offensive by a War of Self-Defence", Note 2, SelectedWorks of Mao Tsetung,Vol. IV. Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project. HTML revised 2004 by Marxists.org Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung LONG LIVE THE GREAT UNITY OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE! September 30, 1949 [The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference entrusted Comrade Mao Tsetung with the drafting of this declaration. On the proposal of the delegates the phrase "under the leadership of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the leader of our people" was inserted in the declaration at the time of its adoption.] Fellow-Countrymen, The First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has successfully fulfilled its tasks. This session has been attended by delegates from all the democratic parties and people's organizations of China, the People's Liberation Army, the various regions and nationalities of the country, the overseas Chinese and other patriotic democrats; it represents the will of the people of the whole country and demonstrates their unprecedented great unity
This great unity of the whole people has been achieved only after long years of heroic struggle,only after the Chinese people and the People's Liberation Army,led by the Communist Party of China, defeated Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary Kuomintang government backed by U.S.imperialism.For over a century,the pioneers of the Chinese people,including such outstanding men as the great revolutionary Dr.Sun Yat-sen who led the Revolution of 1911,have guided the masses in their unceasing struggles to overthrow oppression by the imperialists and reactionary Chinese regimes; this goal has now been finally attained through their dauntless and persistent efforts.We are holding this session at a time when the Chinese people have triumphed over their enemies,changed the face of their country and founded the People's Republic of China.We the 475 million Chinese people have now stood up and the future of our nation is infinitely bright. Under the leadership of Chairman Mao Tsetung,the leader of our people,our session,working with one mind and in accordance with the principle of New Democracy,has enacted the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and the Common Programme of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference:decided on Peking as the capital of the People's Republic of China;adopted a flag with five stars on a field of red as the national flag of the People's Republic of China and the March of the Volunteersas the present national anthem;adopted the Christian era as the chronological system of the People's Republic of China;and elected the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Central People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China.Thus begins a new era in the history of China. Fellow-countrymen,the founding of the People's Republic of China is proclaimed,and the Chinese people now have their own Central Government.In accordance with the Common Programme,the government will exercise the people's democratic dictatorship over the length and breadth of China. It will direct the People's Liberation Army to carry the revolutionary war through to the end,wipe out the remnant enemy troops and liberate the entire territory of the country to fulfil the great task of unifying China.It will lead the people of the whole country in surmounting all difficulties and undertaking large-scale construction in the economic and cultural spheres to eliminate the poverty and ignorance inherited from the old China and improve the material and cultural life of the people step by step.It will protect the interests of the people and stamp out all the conspiracies of counter- revolutionaries.It will strengthen the people's army,navy and air force,consolidate national defence,safeguard our territorial integrity and sovereignty and oppose aggression by any imperialist country.It will unite and ally itself with all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries, nations and peoples,and first of all with the Soviet Union and the New Democracies,and together with them fight against imperialist plots to provoke war and so strive for lasting world peace. Fellow-countrymen,we should get ourselves better organized.We should organize the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people in political,military,economic,cultural and other organizations and put an end to the disorganized state characterizing the old China,so that the great collective strength of the masses may be tapped both to support the People's Government and the People's Liberation Army and to build a new China,independent,democratic,peaceful,unified, prosperous and strong
This great unity of the whole people has been achieved only after long years of heroic struggle, only after the Chinese people and the People's Liberation Army, led by the Communist Party of China, defeated Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary Kuomintang government backed by U.S. imperialism. For over a century, the pioneers of the Chinese people, including such outstanding men as the great revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat-sen who led the Revolution of 1911, have guided the masses in their unceasing struggles to overthrow oppression by the imperialists and reactionary Chinese regimes; this goal has now been finally attained through their dauntless and persistent efforts. We are holding this session at a time when the Chinese people have triumphed over their enemies, changed the face of their country and founded the People's Republic of China. We the 475 million Chinese people have now stood up and the future of our nation is infinitely bright. Under the leadership of Chairman Mao Tsetung, the leader of our people, our session, working with one mind and in accordance with the principle of New Democracy, has enacted the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China and the Common Programme of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; decided on Peking as the capital of the People's Republic of China; adopted a flag with five stars on a field of red as the national flag of the People's Republic of China and the March of the Volunteersas the present national anthem; adopted the Christian era as the chronological system of the People's Republic of China; and elected the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Central People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China. Thus begins a new era in the history of China. Fellow-countrymen, the founding of the People's Republic of China is proclaimed, and the Chinese people now have their own Central Government. In accordance with the Common Programme, the government will exercise the people's democratic dictatorship over the length and breadth of China. It will direct the People's Liberation Army to carry the revolutionary war through to the end, wipe out the remnant enemy troops and liberate the entire territory of the country to fulfil the great task of unifying China. It will lead the people of the whole country in surmounting all difficulties and undertaking large-scale construction in the economic and cultural spheres to eliminate the poverty and ignorance inherited from the old China and improve the material and cultural life of the people step by step. It will protect the interests of the people and stamp out all the conspiracies of counterrevolutionaries. It will strengthen the people's army, navy and air force, consolidate national defence, safeguard our territorial integrity and sovereignty and oppose aggression by any imperialist country. It will unite and ally itself with all peace-loving and freedom-loving countries, nations and peoples, and first of all with the Soviet Union and the New Democracies, and together with them fight against imperialist plots to provoke war and so strive for lasting world peace. Fellow-countrymen, we should get ourselves better organized. We should organize the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people in political, military, economic, cultural and other organizations and put an end to the disorganized state characterizing the old China, so that the great collective strength of the masses may be tapped both to support the People's Government and the People's Liberation Army and to build a new China, independent, democratic, peaceful, unified, prosperous and strong