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{{Infobox constitution|document_name=Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference|jurisdiction={{PRC}}|date_repealed=Never formally repealed|head_of_state=Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China|date_effective=September 29, September 1949|Image=Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference logo.svg|caption=Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference logo|Image size=128px}}▼
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[[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''''' was the primary general policy document issuedpassed by the [[1st National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference|First Plenary Session of the]] in[[Chinese 1949.People's ThePolitical program,Consultative thoughConference]] havingin noSeptember legal1949. power,The served''Common inProgram'' effectserved as an interimthe [[provisional constitution]] untilof 1954,the whenPeople's aRepublic newlyof China since then until the writtenformal [[1954 Constitution of the People's Republic of China|constitution]] was passed and ratified by the [[1st National People's Congress]] in September 1954.
== Background ==
On September 29, 1949, the [[1stFirst Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference#The first plenary session|first plenaryPlenary sessionSession 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 Communist Revolution|Chinese revolution]].<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=25}}
