SWB
C.6.1.
FE/7209/C1/1 (B)
15 Dec 82
C.1 FIFTH SESSION OF CHINA'S CPPCC
New Constitution of the CPPCC
Xinhua in Chinese 1425 gmt 11 Dec 82
Text, as transmitted, of
Constitution of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
(adopted by the fifth session of the Fifth National Committee of the CPPCC on 11th December 1982)
General Programme
During the protracted course of revolution and construction, the Chinese people have developed the broadest patriotic united front, which is led by the CCP and participated in by various democratic parties, non-party democrats, mass organizations, personages of minority nationalities and patriotic personages of all circles, and which embraces all socialist workers and patriots who support socialism, or who support the reunification of the motherland, including our compatriots in Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao, and Chinese nationals residing abroad.
The CPPCC is a patriotic united front organization of the Chinese people. In September 1949, the first plenary session of the CPPCC, exercising the functions of the NPC in an acting capacity and representing the will of the whole nation, declared the founding of the PRC, thus giving play to its important historical role. Following the First NPC in 1954, the CPPCC made important contributions by continuing to do a great deal of work in the state's political life and in social life as well as in promoting friend ship with foreign countries. In the future, the CPPCC will continue to play an important part in intensifying socialist modernization, in achieving the reunification of the mother- land, including Taiwan, and in struggling against hegemonism and safeguarding world peace
Under the leadership of the CCP, Chinese people of all nationalities have eradicated the exploitative system and established the socialist system. Fundamental changes have taken place with regard to the classes in Chinese society. The worker- peasant alliance has been further consolidated. Intellectuals, like the workers and peasants, have become a force upon wich socialist undertakings rely. Most of those who used to belong to the exploitative classes have become labourers who eam their own living. All democratic parties, which have advanced, gone through tests and made important contributions together with the CCP in the course of people's revolution and construction, have become political alliances of those sections of the socialist workers and the patriots supporting socialism they keep in touch with, and they are playing an increasingly important part.
People of all nationalities in the countries have developed a national relation- ship marked by unity, fraternity and mutual assistance. Patriots with religious beliefs have taken an active part in the motherland's socialist construction. Our compatriots in Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao and our overseas Chinese ardently love their motherland, support the reunifcation of the motherland and support the country's modernization. In the new historical period, our country's patriotic united front has an even stronger vitality. It is still an important "magic weapon" to unite the Chinese people to struggle, and to construct and reunify our motherland, and it will be further consolidated and developed,