Theory Conference, January-April 1979
The Theory Conference of 1979 was a gathering of Chinese Communist Party cadres and theoreticians that took place between December 18 and December 22, 1978, at the 3rd Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, during which Deng Xiaoping’s leadership was officially consolidated and Hu Yaobang was elevated to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, Politburo. This session confirmed the reform agenda of the CCP. Hu was tasked with arranging a theoretical conference to revise the Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP's ideology and lay the intellectual groundwork for the Four Modernizations, Four Modernisations goal and economic reform. Background With the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 upon Mao Zedong’s death and the purge of the Gang of Four, there occurred a widespread political and social reaction to the violent and destructive excesses of Maoism. Deng Xiaoping, having secured rehabilitation in 1975, further consolidated ...
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Chinese Communist Party
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang and Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, proclaimed the establishment of the PRC under the leadership of Mao Zedong in October 1949. Since then, the CCP has governed China and has had sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). , the CCP has more than 99 million members, making it the List of largest political parties, second largest political party by membership in the world. In 1921, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao led the founding of the CCP with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist International. Although the CCP aligned with the Kuomintang (KMT) during its initia ...
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