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{{Short description|Policy program adopted by CPPCC in 1949}}{{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Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference|jurisdiction={{PRC}}|date_repealed=Never formally repealed|head_of_state=Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China|date_effective=September 29, 1949|Image=Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference logo.svg|caption=Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference logo}}[[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 Common Program of The 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 an 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]].

== Background ==

On September 29, 1949, 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}}

== Key provisions ==