Common Program

The Common Program was the primary general policy document passed by the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in September 1949.

On September 29, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously adopted the Common Program as the basic political program for the country following the success of the Chinese revolution.

[1]: 26 The Common Program described the primary task of the new government as eliminating feudal, compradorial, and fascist ideologies.

[3]: 27 Generally, the Common Program prioritized ownership of the state-owned economy, although it also gave consideration to some private interests.

: 69 Researcher Zheng Qian compares the Common Program's support for an economy with mixed forms of ownership to Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy during the post-1921 transitional period in the Soviet Union.

Picture of CPPCC members when the Common Program was discussed and passed at the conference in 1949.