893.01/10–149: Telegram
The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 2—7:16 a. m.]
1666. Following is text in translation public statement October 1:
“Proclamation of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China.
Since the reactionary Kmt Government of Chiang Kai-shek revolted against our Fatherland, joined in collusion with imperialism, and began the counter-revolutionary war, the people of the whole country have been in grievous circumstances. Fortunately, in order to protect the territorial sovereignty of our Fatherland, to protect the lives and property of the people, to eliminate the sufferings of the people and to attain the people’s victory, our People’s Liberation Army with the aid of the people of the whole country has struggled selflessly, fought valiantly, and succeeded in destroying the reactionary armies and overthrowing the reactionary rule of the Kmt Government. The people’s liberation war has now achieved basic victory, and the majority of the people in the entire country has already attained liberation.
On this foundation, the plenary session of the people’s PCC organized from representatives of democratic parties and groups, all people’s organizations, the People’s Liberation Army, all areas, all races, overseas Chinese, and other patriotic democratic elements, of the whole country has already met and, representing the will of the people of the whole country, enacted the organization statute of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, and elected:
As chairman of the Central People’s Government: Mao Tse-tung;
As Vice Chairmen: Chu Teh, Liu Shao-chi, Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Li Chi-shen, Chang Lan, and Kao Kang;
And as Council members: Chen Yi, Ho Lung, Li Li-san, Lin Po-chu (Tsu-han), Yeh Chien-ying, Ho Hsiang-ning (Madame Liao Chung-kai), Lin Piao, Peng Te-huai, Liu Po-cheng, Wu Yu-chang, Hsu Hsiang-chien, Po Yi-po, Meh Jung-chen, Chou En-lai, Tung Pi-wu, Sai Fu-ting, Jao Shu-shih, Tan Kah-kee, Lo Jung-huan, Teng Tzu-hui, Ulanfu (Yun Tse), Hsu Te-li, Tsai Chang, Liu Ke-ping, Ma Yin-chu, Chen Yun, Kang Sheng, Lin Feng, Ma Hsu-lun, Kuo Mo-jo, Chang Yun-yi, Teng Hsiao-ping, Kao Chung-min, Shen Chun-ju, Shen Yen-ping (Mao Tun), Chen Shu-tung, Ssu-tu Mei-tang, Li Hsi-chiu, Huang Yen-pei, Tsai Ting-kai, Hsi Chung-hsun, Peng Tse-min, Chang Chih-chung, Fu Tso-yi, Li Chu-chen, Li Chang-ta, Chang Po-chun, Cheng Chien, Chang Hsi-jo, Chen Shu-ming, Tan [Page 545] Ping-shang, Chang Nan-hsien, Liu Ya-tzu, Chang Tung-sun, and Lung Yun.
Has organized the Central People’s Government Council; has proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China; and has fixed Peking to be the capital of the People’s Republic of China.
The Central People’s Government Council of the People’s Republic of China today took office in the capital and unanimously decided to proclaim the establishment of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China and to accept the common program of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Council as the course of action for the government.
Elected from among the Council members Lin Po-chu to be Secretary-General of the Central People’s Government Council;
Appointed Chou En-lai to be Premier of the Administrative Council of the Central People’s Government and concurrently Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Appointed Mao Tse-tung to be chairman of the People’s Revolutionary Military Council of the Central People’s Government.
Appointed Chu Teh to be Commander in Chief of the PLA;
Appointed Shen Chun-ju as head of the Supreme People’s Court of the Central People’s Government;
Appointed Lo Jung-huan as head of the Office of the People’s Procurator General of the Central People’s Government; and charged them with responsibility for setting up all government organs and putting into operation all government activities as rapidly as possible.
At the same time it was decided to proclaim to the governments of all countries that this government is sole legal government representing all of the people of the People’s Republic of China. This government alike is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any and all governments of foreign countries which wish to observe principles of equality, mutual benefit, and mutual respect for territorial sovereignty.
Mao Tse-tung, Chairman Central People’s Government, People’s Republic of China, October 1, 1949.”95
Per NCNA item October 1 published Hsin Min Pao October 2;
“Foreign Minister Chou En-lai of the Central People’s Government today sent Chairman Mao Tze-tung’s public statement by letter to all foreign governments.
Minister Chou sent it by official notes to all old [garble] Consular offices of various countries in Peking, requesting them to transmit to their countries’ governments. In cases of those without Consulates in Peking but having Embassies or Legations in Nanking, then they were sent to the old Embassies or Legations of various countries in Nanking.” (Here Hsin Min Pao prints text covering letter, carries also text public statement.)
Tientsin by mail. Repeated Nanking 1127, Shanghai 1032.
- Notation by Troy L. Perkins, of the Division of Chinese Affairs: “Copy Mao statement handed British and French Emb. repr. 10–3–49. To Belgian, Italian, and Dutch on 10–4–49.”↩