Constitution of China 英文版.docx

Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China(Full text after amendment on March 14, 2004)(Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National Peoples Congress and promulgated for implementation by the Announcement of the National Peoples Congress on December 4, 1982Amended in accordance with the Amendments to the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China adopted respectively at the First Session of the Seventh National Peoples Congress on April 12, 1988, the First Session of the Eighth National Peoples Congress on March 29, 1993, the Second Session of the Ninth National Peoples Congress on March 15, 1999 and the Second Session of the Tenth National Peoples Congress on March 14, 2004)PreambleChina is a country with one of the longest histories in the world. The people of all of China’s nationalities have jointly created a culture of grandeur and have a glorious revolutionary tradition.After 1840, feudal China was gradually turned into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country. The Chinese people waged many successive heroic struggles for national independence and liberation and for democracy and freedom.Great and earthshaking historical changes have taken place in China in the 20th century.The Revolution of 1911, led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, abolished the feudal monarchy and gave birth to the Republic of China. But the historic mission of the Chinese people to overthrow imperialism and feudalism remained unaccomplished.After waging protracted and arduous struggles, armed and otherwise, along a zigzag course, the Chinese people of all nationalities led by the Communist Party of China with Chairman Mao Zedong as its leader ultimately, in 1949, overthrew the rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism, won a great victory in the New-Democratic Revolution and founded the People’s Republic of China. Since then the Chinese people have taken control of state power and become masters of the country.After the founding of the People’s Republic, China gradually achiev