{{Short description|Policy program adopted by CPPCC in 1949}}
[[File:通过共同纲领.jpg|thumb|Picture of CPPCC members when the Common Program was discussed and passed at the conference in 1949. ]]
'''The Common Program''' (full title in English: the New Democratic Outline of theThe Common Program of theThe Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Zheng |first=Qian |title=An Ideological History of the Communist Party of China |date=2020 |publisher=Royal Collins Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4878-0391-9 |editor-last=Zheng |editor-first=Qian |volume=2 |___location=Montreal, Quebec |translator-last=Sun |translator-first=Li |translator-last2=Bryant |translator-first2=Shelly}}</ref>{{Rp|page=4}} was the primary general policy document issued by the [[Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]] (CPPCC) in 1949. The program, though having no legal power, served in effect as a interim [[provisional constitution]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of the CPPCC |url=http://www.cppcc.gov.cn/zxww/2012/07/03/ARTI1341301498359101.shtml |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=www.cppcc.gov.cn}}</ref> until 1954, when a newly written [[1954 Constitution of the People's Republic of China|constitution]] was passed and ratified by the [[1st National People's Congress]].
