After Comrade Shaoqi has reviewed it, please pass it on to Comrade Li Weihan [1]: This document [2] may be immediately circulated to all concerned parties—the members of the Constitution Drafting Committee and the members of the Central People’s Government—and they should bring it to the meeting venue by June 11. Mao Zedong June 9 Based on the manuscript. Notes [1] Li Weihan was at the time Minister of the CPC Central Committee’s United Front Work Department, Secretary-General of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Constitution Drafting Committee of the People’s Republic of China. [2] Refers to the revised draft of the “Draft Constitution of the People’s Republic of China.” This revised draft was discussed and adopted at the seventh meeting of the Constitution Drafting Committee, held on June 11, 1954, with members of the Central People’s Government in attendance. It was subsequently approved for public release and put out for comments nationwide. At the same meeting, a report titled “The Constitution Drafting Committee’s Account of the Process of Drafting the Constitution” was also discussed and adopted, to be submitted to the Central People’s Government. 4£¹

On the Draft Constitution of the People’s Republic of China [1] (June 14, 1954)