Government Name: | Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China |
Nativename: | 中華人民共和國中央人民政府 |
Date: | September 1949 |
Branch1 Label1: | Chairman |
Branch1 Data1: | Mao Zedong |
Branch1: | Executive |
Legislature Label: | Legislature |
Legislature: | Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference |
Document: | Common Program |
Document Type: | Founding document |
Branch1 Label2: | Vice Chairpersons |
Branch1 Data2: | Zhu De Liu Shaoqi Soong Ching-ling Zhang Lan Gao Gang |
Branch1 Label3: | Secretary-General |
Branch1 Data3: | Lin Boqu |
Date End: | 1954 (superseded by the State Council of the People's Republic of China) |
Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China | |
T: | 中華人民共和國中央人民政府 |
S: | 中华人民共和国中央人民政府 |
P: | Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Zhōngyāng Rénmín Zhèngfǔ |
During the first five years of the People's Republic of China (1949 to 1954), the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China served as supreme organ for exercising state power when the National People's Congress was not in session, as determined by the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]
Since 1954, the Central People's Government has been synonymous with the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The term Central People's Government is still used in Mainland agencies in Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
On 27 September 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference passed the Organic Law of the Central People's Government. It also elected the Central People's Government Committee on 30 September.[2] [3]
The Central People's Government was then composed of: