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Founding of PRC
(china.org.cn)
Updated: 2004-06-25 15:59
From September 21 to 30, 1949, the First Plenum of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held in Beijing, with the
participation of various political parties, popular organizations, non-Party
democrats and representatives from all walks of life. The CPPCC drew up a Common
Program, which served as a provisional constitution. It elected a Central
People's Government Council, with Mao Zedong as Chairman, and appoint Zhou Enlai
Premier of the Government Adminsitration Council and concurrently Minister of
Foreign Affairs. On October 1, 1949, a grand ceremony inaugurating the People's
Republic of China was witnessed by 300,000 people in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
On that day, Chairman Mao Zedong solemnly proclaimed the formal establishment of
the People's Republic of China.
The early days of New China were a period of economic recovery. While
developing production, China gradually established socialist public ownership of
the means of production. From 1953 to 1956, large-scale socialist transformation
of the national economy was implemented, the First Five-Year Plan (1953-1957)
for the development of the national economy was achieved ahead of schedule, and
China established and expanded basic industries necessary for full
industrialization, hitherto non-existent domestically, producing airplanes,
automobiles, heavy machinery, precision machinery, power-generating equipment,
metallurgical and mining equipment, high-grade alloy steels and non-ferrous
metals.
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