1945 On August 25th, the Central Committee of China issued the Declaration on the Current Situation. The "Declaration" pointed out: after the surrender of Japanese imperialism, "the main tasks facing my whole nation are: consolidating domestic unity, ensuring domestic peace, realizing democracy and improving people's lives, so as to achieve national reunification on the basis of peaceful and democratic unity, build an independent and prosperous new China, and cooperate with Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and all its allies to consolidate lasting international peace." "We must adhere to peace, democracy and unity and strive for an independent, free and prosperous new China!"