Notice No. 1 of the Central Executive
Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic
(February 3, 1934)
The Second National Soviet Congress of the Chinese Soviet Republic formally
opened on January 21 , 1934, in the Red capital of the Soviet Area. The congress
drew to a completely successful conclusion after eleven spectacular days. The
congress summed up the experience of the soviet movement in China during the
past two years, pointed out the ultimate historical mission for which the soviets
must struggle in the future, and discussed in concrete terms important problems
such as building the Red Army, economic construction, and the construction of
the soviets. It also passed the amended Soviet Constitution, and resolutions on
the above important issues. Finally, the congress elected the following 175 persons to membership of the Central Executive Committee:
Bo Gu, Chen Shaoyu, He Kequan, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, Xiang Ying, Wu
Liangping. Qu Qiubai, Zhou Yuelin, Jin Weiying, Huang Fagui, Xie Yuqin, Li
Fuchun, Xie Mingren, Xiao Shibang, Lin Guosong, Huang Changjiao, Cai
Chang, Zhong Baoyuan, Lou Mengxia, Zhang Jizhi, Xu Dazhi, Zeng Shan,
Zhong Changtao, Liu Qiyao, Zhong Xunren, Li Zhuoran, Liu Guangchen, Xie
Xiansi, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, Wang Jiaxiang, Liu Bocheng, He Chang, He
Changgong, Teng Daiyuan, Pcng Dehuai, Yang Shangkun, Lin Biao, Nie
Rongzhcn, Dong Zhentang, Liu Bojian, Huang Su, Cai Shufan, Nie Hongjun,
Wang Ruehi, Wan Yongcheng, Chen Guang, Xun Huaizhou, Luo Ruiqing,
Zhang Chunqing, Zhou Jianping, Zhou Kun, Yue Shaohua, Chen Ajin, Yuan
Guoping, Ye Jianying, Chen Yi, Bi Shiti, Chen Hongshi, Xiao Ke, Kong Helong,
Zhu Rui, Liu Chouxi, Xu Yan'gang, Chen Changhao, Xu Xiangqian, Zhang
Guotao, Zhang Qinqiu, He Long, Guan Xiangying, Xia Xi, Song Baimin, Wang
Weizhou, Luo Binghui, Hong Shui, Cai Gan, Zhang Ranhe, Yu Hongwen, Wang
Shitai, Pan Shizhong, Jiang Asan, Zhang Guanyi, Gu Dacun, Zheng Zhenfen,
Zhu Qi, Gao Junting, Zhan Yijin, Zheng Weisan, Wang Fengming, Cheng
Fangwu, Guo Shushen, Zhang Desan, Zhu Weiheng, Gu Zuolin, Shao Shiping,
Huang Dao, Zhu Zhaoxiang, Kong Shu'an, Liu Xiao, Zhong Shibin, Fu Caixiu,
This notice was first published in Hongse Zhonghua, no. 148, February 12, 1934. It is
reproduced in Mao Zedongji, Vol. 4, pp. 297-300, but that version contains a few wrong
characters, so we have preferred to translate from Hongse Zhonghua.

Zhou Yikai, Liu Minghui, Xiong Xianbi, Liu Guozhu, Zhong Guixin, Luo Mai,
Chen Xiangsheng, Lin Boqu, Liu Qunxian, Hu Hai, Fan Lechun, Zeng Hongyi,
Wu Ziyuan, Zhang Taihe, Huang Yizhang, Zhang Dingcheng, Li Jianzhen, Wu
Lanfu, Wu Bixian, Qiu Xianying, Zhang Wentian, Chen Yun, Wang Shengrong,
Deng Fa, Chen Tanqiu, Pan Hannian, Huang Jiagao, Zhang Yunxian, Zhang
Jinlou, Zhou Shaowen, He Zhenwu, Chen Shouchang, Huang Guangbao, Tan
Yubao, Liu Shijie, Wang Zhen, Kuang Biao, Peng Renchang, Ren Bishi, Wu
Defeng, Wang Xiuzhang, Xiong Guobing, Yu Hongyuan, Li Weihai, He Wei, Li
Xiannian, Zeng Guanglan, Zhou Guangkun, Li Chen&iia, Chen Ziqian, Fang
Zhimin, Yu Hanchao, Huang Wansheng, Wang Jinxiang, Guan Ying, Tu
Zhennong, Guan Chunxiang, Wu Yuzhang, Zhu Diyuan, Yang Qixin, Deng
Zhenxun, He Shuheng, Gao Zili, Liang Botai, Xu Teli, Ruan Xiaoxian, Deng
Yingchao, Dong Biwu, Zhao Yun, Wang Xianxuan, Luo Ziming, Yang Shizhu,
and Lai Meiyu.
In addition, the following thirty-six persons were elected alternate members
of the Central Executive Committee: Yang Binglong, Xie Zhenfu, Qiu Shifeng,
Deng Yaosheng, Dong Changsheng, Liu Yi, Li Meiqun, Zou Zhongcai, Xu
Shunheng, Xu Mingfu, Ye Degui, Deng Zihui, Zhu Rongsheng, Jia Yuan, Feng
Xuefeng, Li Yimang, Li Kenong, Zhang Aiping, Luo Ronghuan, Li Xifan, Yan
Liji, Yin Rengui, Liu Yanyu, Fang Jinghe, Xie Binghuang, Zhong Yijin, Huang
Fuwu, Fang Zhenhua, Zou Dunhou, Liao Hanhua, Long Chunshan, Hua
Xinxiang, Zhou Guixiang, Kuang Zhuquan, Deng Ping, and Kang Keqing.
The Central Executive Committee is therefore composed of the 211 full and
alternate members. It is the supreme organ of political power after the conclusion
of the National Soviet Congress.
On February 3rd, the Central Executive Committee convened its first meeting
and unanimously elected a seventeen-member presidium comprising the following members as the supreme organ of authority after the conclusion of the
meeting: Mao Zedong, Xiang Ying, Zhang Guotao, Zhu De, Zhang Wentian, Bo
Gu, Zhou Enlai, Qu Qiubai, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yun, Lin Boqu, Deng Zhenxun,
Zhu Diyuan, Deng Fa, Fang Zhimin, Luo Mai, and Zhou Yuelin. It also designated Mao Zedong as the chairman of the Central Executive Committee, with
Xiang Ying and Zhang Guotao as vice-chairmen.
At the same time, it also elected Zhang Wentian (Luo Fu) as the chairman of
the Council of People's Commissars. Under the Council of People's Commissars
the following eleven commissariats were established as the central administrative organs:
Wang Jiaxiang is appointed people's commissar for foreign affairs;
Zhu De is appointed people's commissar for military affairs;
Deng Zhenxun is appointed people's commissar for labor;
Gao Zili is appointed people's commissar for the land;
Lin Boqu is appointed people's commissar for finance;
Wu Liangping is appointed people's commissar for the national economy;

Chen Tanqiu is appointed people's commissar for food;
Liang Botai is appointed people's commissar for judicial affairs;
Zeng Shan is appointed people's commissar for internal affairs;
Qu. Qiu.bai is appointed people's commissar for education;
Xiang Ying is appointed people's commissar for the worker-peasant
procuratorate.
The meeting also elected Zhu De chairman of the Central Revolutionary
Military Commission, and Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang vice-chairmen of the
same commission. It appointed Yuan Xiaoxian director of the Central Auditing
Committee. It also appointed Dong Biwu chief justice of the provisional supreme
court.
The Central Executive Committee, in addition to accepting all the fighting
tasks assigned to it by the Second National Soviet Congress, also calls on all
those comrades working in the soviets to mobilize immediately, intensify their
efforts, mobilize the largest number of workers and peasants possible, unite
closely around the Soviet Government, concentrate all our forces, and wage a
revolutionary war to struggle for the complete destruction of the imperialist
Guomindang's Fifth "Encirclement and Suppression" and for the victory of the
soviets throughout China!
Chairman
Vice-Chairmen
Mao Zedong
Xiang Ying
Zhang Guotao