During the first five years of the

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(1949 to 1954), the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China (the then official script—

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: 中華人民共和國中央人民政府; transliterated in Wade-Giles: ''Chunghua Jenmin Kunghokho Chungyang Jenmin Chêngfu'') served as supreme organ for exercising state power when the

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was not in session, as determined by the

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.Article 12,

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. Since 1954, the Central People's Government has been synonymous with the

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. The term Central People's Government is still used in Mainland agencies in Special Administrative Regions of

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and

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Organizational structure

The Central People's Government was then composed of: *
() ** Ministries of the Central People's Government * People's Revolutionary Military Committee of the Central People's Government
() * Supreme People's Court of the Central People's Government
() * Supreme People's Procuratorate of the Central People's Government
() * State Planning Commission of the Central People's Government (1952–1954)
()

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* Government of China 1949 establishments in China {{PRChina-gov-stub

Organizational structure

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