(Wu Wu, the first month 27), March 5, 1978, following the first constitution 24 years after the promulgation of the new constitution promulgated in China.

1978, the first meeting of the Fifth People's Congress Standing Committee to consider, on behalf of the country's highest authority adopted a new constitution.
The constitution largely restored to adhere some good principles and systems of the 1954 Constitution, with the form of the fundamental law of the provisions of the National People's overall mission in the new period, establishes a legal basis for the four modernizations, adhere national unity, the principle of ethnic equality and the principle of international solidarity. At that time, the "two whatevers" the impact of the erroneous principle, so there are still some traces the history of the "left", reflecting the number of errors and outdated political theory point of view and does not comply with the content of the actual situation, some provisions regulations less stringent, specific and clear.