中华人民共和国是1949年则月1日建立的。但新中国工会运动的起点却要从1948年8月召开的第六次全国劳动大会（简称六次劳大）说起。这是因为，六次劳大粉碎了国民党策划建立的伪全国总工会，分裂中国工运运动的阴谋，确定了中国工会运动的总方针和总任务，从思想和组织上实现了 The People’s Republic of China was established on the 1st of January 1949. However, the starting point of the new China’s union movement must start with the Sixth National Labor Assembly held in August 1948 (referred to as “six labor unions” for short). This is because six times of labor and government smashed the pseudo-all-China Federation of Trade Unions planned by the KMT and split the conspiracy of Chinese workers’ movement to determine the general principle and general task of the trade union movement in China and realized the ideological and organizational