After the founding of new China, the basic completion of socialist transformation of seven years and began a decade of building socialism, the socialist system in the new China was founded and important period of development. In order to facilitate the professional cadres at all levels and in-depth understanding and study of seventeen years a major party and state decisions, a systematic study and summarize the historical experience since the founding of better building socialism with Chinese characteristics, the CPC Central Committee approval, we edited the "Selected Important Documents Since the founding of" This multi-volume set of the literature. 

Book income is from the beginning to the founding of the "Cultural Revolution" on the eve of important documents, the "common platform" open-book. The book includes the CPC Central Committee, the national people, the Government Administration Council and the State Council, Central Military Commission of the basic documents issued by the department and forwarded a number of important documents, the central leaders of some department heads for the important speeches and articles, as well as through the press to convey the spirit of important social center; also part of income generation in history has had greater impact, or has important theoretical significance of the informal documents and speech records. 

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