The full speach:
" The people throughout China have been plunged into
bitter suffering and tribulations since the Chiang Kai-shek Kuomintang
reactionary government betrayed the fatherland, colluded with imperialists,
and lunched the counter-revolutionary war. Fortunately our People's
Liberation Army, backed by the whole nation, has been fighting heroically
and selflessly to defend the territorial sovereignty of our homeland, to
protect the people's lives and property, to relieve the people of their
sufferings, and to struggle for their rights, and it eventually wiped out
the reactionary troops and overthrew the reactionary rule of the Nationalist
government. Now, the People's War of Liberation has been basically won, and
the majority of the people in the country have been liberated. On this
foundation, the first session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference , composed of delegates of all the democratic parties and
people's organization of China, the People's Liberation Army, the various
regions and nationalities of the country, and the overseas Chinese and other
patriotic elements, has been convened. Representing the will of the whole
nation, [this session of the conference] has enacted the organic law of the
Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, elected Mao
Zedong as chairman of the Central People's Government; and Zhu De, Lui
Shaoqi, Song Qingling, Li Jishen, Zhang Lan, and Gao Gang as vice chairmen [of
the Central People's Government]; and Chen Yi, He Long, Li Lisan, Lin Boqu,
Ye Jianying, He Xiangning, Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng, Wu Yuzhang,
Xu Xiangqian, Peng Zhen, Bo Yibo, Nie Rongzhen, Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu,
Seypidin, Rao Shushi, Tan Kah-kee [Chen Jiageng], Luo Ronghuan, Deng Zihui,
Ulanhu, Xu Deli, Cai Chang, Liu Geping, Ma Yinchu, Chen Yun, Kang Sheng, Lin
Feng, Ma Xulun, Guo Moruo, Zhang Yunyi, Deng Xiaoping, Gao Chongmin, Shen
Junru, Shen Yanbing, Chen Shutong, Szeto Mei-tong [Situ Meitang], Li Xijiu,
Huang Yanpei, Cai Tingkai, Xi Zhongxun, Peng Zemin, Zhang Zhizhong, Fu Zuoyi,
Li Zhuchen, Li Zhangda, Zhang Nanxian, Liu Yazi, Zhang Dongsun, and Long Yun
as council members to form the Central People's Government Council,
proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China and decided on
Beijing as the capital of the People's Republic of China. The Central
People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China took office
today in the capital and unanimously made the following decisions: to
proclaim the establishment of the Central People's Government of the
People's Republic of China; to adopt the Common Program of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference as the policy of the government;
to elect Lin Boqu from among the council members as secretary general of the
Central People's Government Council; to appoint Zhou Enlai as premier of the
Government Adminstration Council of the Central People's Government and
concurrently minister of Foreign Affairs, Mao Zedong as chairman of the
People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's
Government, Zhu De as commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army,
Shen Junru as president of the Supreme People's Court of the Central
People's Government, and Luo Ronghuan as procurator general of the Supreme
People's Procuratorate of the Central People's Government, and to charge
them with the task of the speedy formation of the various organs of the
government to carry out the work of the government. At the same time, the
Central People's Government Council decided to declare to the governments of
all other countries that this government is the sole legal government
representing all the people of the People's Republic of China. This
government is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign
government that is willing to observe the principles of equality, mutual
benefit, and mutual respect of territorial integrity and sovereignty."