March 5, 1978 (the first month 27) Wu Wu, the Fifth NPC first meeting through a constitutional amendment. the first meeting of the March

1978, the Fifth National People's Congress to pass the amendment and the formation of a new constitution. The main amendments content:
an increase in the master of this provision: "countries adhere to the principles of socialist democracy, the protection of the people to participate in the national management, the management of various economic undertakings and cultural undertakings, the supervision of the state organs and staff. "
National institutions, improve the electoral system and to strengthen the functions of the National People's Congress, to strengthen the functions of the local People's Congress, an increase of nearly 20 specific provisions; restore the People's Procuratorate set; "National People's Congress under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the highest national authority" was changed to "The National People's Congress is the highest organ of state power. the
Third, on the terms of the relevant state organs and the staff made major modifications, such as the expansion of the original Article XI for the fifteenth and sixteen Replace "National authorities must keep in close ties with the masses, relying on the masses of the people, listen to their views and concern for the sufferings of the masses, streamlining administration and economy, improve efficiency and combat bureaucratism. "The staff of state organs must ...... seeking truth from facts, not falsify, shall not use the office for personal gain. "
, Strengthen the people of the state machinery to strengthen the dictatorship of the enemy, such as the armed forces of the people, by written country to vigorously strengthen revolutionizing the modernization of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the militia construction, the implementation of the Field Army the contents of the three combinations of local troops and militia armed forces system ".
five, made it clear that the consolidation of the socialist economic base, high-speed development of the social productive forces. As the implementation of the original Article 10 of the Constitution, "National grasping revolution and promoting production, and promote the work and preparedness against war ..." to countries insist on going all out, to strive for the best, better and more economical building socialism ...... constitutional amendment in 1978 alone highlights the importance of education; provisions in the cultural construction of "adherence to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought in the leadership of the various ideological and cultural fields" and & ldquo ; hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend "policy. The constitutional amendment to the original constitution, 30 expansion to 60, due to the prevailing historical conditions and later the great changes of the situation, especially in the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, and in many places in the original Constitution has already been very to adapt to the current political and economic life, and the people of the need for building a modern country. If we insist on continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat and to engage in class struggle, continues to affirm certain practices of the "Cultural Revolution", including the use of "revolutionary committee name", to continue the use of the "big four". Therefore, the CPC Central Committee in September 1980 recommended that the National People's Congress established the Constitution Revision Commission to amend the constitution.