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1946

January 10,1946

1946

The Political Consultative Conference attended by representatives of the KMT,the CPC, the Democratic League, the Youth Party and social celebrities was opened in Chongqing. Closed on the 31st, the conference adopted Agreement on Government Organization, Programme for Peace and National Reconstruction, Agreement on Military Affairs, Agreement on the National Assembly and Agreement on the Draft Constitution. The five documents, which in essence negated the KMT's one-party dictatorship and autocracy and its policy of civil war, were favourable to the people under the conditions prevailing at the time.

 

May 4,1946

The CPC Central Committee issued the “Directive on Settlement of Accounts and Reduction of Rents and the Land Question,” which was also known as the “May 4th Directive. It was changing the Party's policy of reduction of rent and interest carried out during the war of resistance to weaken feudal practices into one of “land to the tillers” to eliminate such practices.