Historical Organization
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Organization Timeline
The Common Program defines a mixed transitional economy
📅 29 September 1949The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference adopted the Common Program, a provisional constitutional framework. It protected workers, peasants, cooperatives and private property while...
The central government unifies national financial and economic administration
📅 3 March 1950The decision to unify national financial and economic work brought budgets, supplies, trade and monetary management under stronger central coordination. It helped contain inflation and restore the...
Marriage Law takes effect
📅 1 May 1950The PRC’s first marriage law took effect, prohibiting arranged and coerced marriage and affirming women’s legal equality in marriage. Its implementation challenged patriarchal practices, though...
The Agrarian Reform Law authorizes redistribution of landlord land
📅 30 June 1950The law abolished landlord landownership and redistributed land to rural households. It broke a deeply unequal agrarian structure and gave many peasants a direct material stake in the new order, while...
Seventeen-Point Agreement on Tibet signed
📅 23 May 1951Representatives of the PRC central government and the Tibetan government signed an agreement on Tibet’s status and governance. Beijing describes it as peaceful liberation and national unification;...
Mainland-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement signed
📅 29 June 2003The mainland and Hong Kong governments signed the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, reducing trade barriers and expanding economic integration. The agreement responded to Hong Kong’s economic...