10, 10 In June, Mao Zedong drafted the Manifesto of the People's Liberation Army of China in Shenquan Newspaper, and put forward the slogan of "Down with Chiang Kai-shek and liberate all China" for the first time, calling for "uniting the oppressed classes, people's organizations, democratic parties, ethnic minorities, overseas Chinese and other patriots all over the world to form a national United front and overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship.
This is "building a brand-new China" and a "new China" that is "independent, free, prosperous and unified". In order to determine the name of "New China", China leaders and Democrats made a comparison and choice at the preparatory meeting of CPPCC. Huang Yanpei and Zhang Zhirang advocate the use of the name "People's Democratic Republic" because democracy and * * * have similar meanings in western languages, so there is no need to repeat them.
Zhang Xiruo advocated "China people and the country", because the word "people" has already expressed the meaning of people's democratic dictatorship, so there is no need to repeat the word "democracy". Most delegates preferred to use the name "People's Republic of China (PRC)", which was finally submitted to the CPPCC meeting and passed.
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After the Opium War, China experienced "an unprecedented change in three thousand years". Driven by the ideological trend of "saving the nation for survival", the establishment of "New China" became the primary theme of modern intellectuals' thinking. According to the available information, Kang Youwei was the first to put forward the "new China".
In the face of the crisis in the late Qing Dynasty, 1888, Kang Youwei proposed: "The death of China should be judged but not saved. We can't bear to sit still, but also want to teach the United States to run a colony in Brazil, thinking it is a new China. " Since the birth of China * * * Production Party, it has started the thought and practice of establishing a "new China".
China * * * Production Party News Network-The Historical Origin of People's Republic of China (PRC)'s "Country Name"