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The Programme of Armed Resistance and National Reconstruction was adopted at the provisional national congress of the Chinese Kuomintang, held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, from March 29 to April 1, 1938. Its contents covered military, political, economic and foreign policies for the war of resistance, and certain concessions made to the people, such as organizing people's political organs and granting freedom of speech, the press, assembly and association. However, because of Chiang Kai-shek's policy of passive resistance to Japan and active opposition to the Communist Party, some of these concessions were never realized.