The 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was convened April 23 - June 11, 1945, in

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. It took place near the end of the

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during a period of uneasy truce between the

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and Communist parties, with each maintaining their headquarters in different regions of China. It was preceded by the 6th National Congress and followed by the 8th National Congress.

Discussions and reports

During the 7th National Congress, Mao Zedong delivered his April 1945 report ''On the Coalition Government'' which expanded on the principles of New Democracy he had formulated in his earlier essay '' On New Democracy''. During the Congress, Mao described the

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's guerilla warfare as "sparrow tactics": Mao also used the fable of ''

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'' in a speech. The foolish old man and his sons are engaged in the seemingly impossible task of removing two mountains, but the gods are touched by their resoluteness and have the mountains carried away. In Mao's speech, he contended: Mao's re-telling of ''The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains'' was later included in the Three Constantly Read Articles and '' Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong'', in which it is the only text reproduced in its entirety rather than excerpted.

Other

The Party passed its 1945

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at the 7th National Congress. The 1945 constitution was the first to incorporate

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, which it incorporated into the preamble. The "five great secretaries in the Central Secretariat" (Mao, Zhu De,

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Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai ( zh, s=周恩来, p=Zhōu Ēnlái, w=Chou1 Ên1-lai2; 5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 unti ...

, and Ren Bishi) were elected by the Central Committee.

References

External links

Resolution on certain Questions in the history of the Party
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