CHAIRMAN MAO APPEALS FOR UNITY IN BUILDING A PEOPLE'S CAPITAL

13 August 1949

[Text] HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY, Peiping, 13 Aug--At the conference of delegates
of all fields in Peiping this afternoon, Chinese Communist Party Chairman
Mao Tse-tung made a short and concise speech. He congratulated the conference for its success and expressed hope that all cities in the nation
will promptly hold similar conferences, reinforce the links between the
government and the people, aid the government in all items of construction
work, overcome the difficulties, and thereby prepare the conditions for
a popularly elected people's congress.

Chairman Mao said:

As soon as the conditions are ripe, the people's delegates conference, in
its present form, will perform the functions of the people's congress,
serve as the city's supreme organ of power, and elect a city government.
Judging from conditions in Peiping, this probably can be done in a few
months. The advantages are many, and I hope the delegates will intensify
the preparations.

Chairman Mao appealed to all the people of Peiping, except the Kuomintang
reactionary remnants and the concealed secret service elements, to unite
and struggle to overcome the difficulties and build a people's capital.

JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 14 August 1949