50年前,我在中国人民政治协商会议筹备会秘书长办公室工作。中华人民共和国成立后,在中央人民政府办公厅主任办公室工作,对筹备成立中华人民共和国这一重大历史事件有所见闻。新中国国名的提出与确定新中国成立以前,中国共产党的领导人和民主人士写文章、演讲,大多都用“中华人民民主共和国”来称谓将来建立的新国家。1949年6月21日,新政治协商会议筹备会第一次会议上,涉及新中国名称时,有人主张用“中华人民民主共 Fifty years ago, I worked in the secretary general office of the preparatory committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he worked in the office of the chief of the general office of the Central People’s Government and made some observations about the preparation for the founding of the People’s Republic of China as a major historic event. Before the founding of New China Before the founding of New China, the leaders and democrats of the Chinese Communist Party wrote articles and speeches mostly using the ”People’s Democratic Republic“ to name a new country to be established in the future. On June 21, 1949, at the first meeting of the preparatory meeting for the new Political Consultative Conference, when it came to the name of the new China, some people advocated the use of the ”People’s Democratic Republic of China