Chronology

1. 1st Plenary Session
   • Date: July 18, 1928
   • Location: Moscow
     Moscow
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     , USSR
   • Significance: The meeting was held in Moscow
     Moscow
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     , as the 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held there concurrently with the 6th Congress of the Comintern
     Comintern
     The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...
     
     . Xiang Zhongfa
     Xiang Zhongfa
     Xiang Zhongfa was one of the early senior leaders of the Communist Party of China .-Early life:Xiang was born in 1880 to a poor family living in Shanghai. He dropped out of elementary school to move with his parents to their ancestral home in Hubei...
     
      was elected General Secretary
     General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
     The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , officially General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China, a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat...
     
      under Li Lisan
     Li Lisan
     Lǐ Lìsān was an early leader of the Chinese communists, and the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1928 to 1930, member of Polit Bureau, and later member of Central Committee.-Early years:...
     
     's influence; a 14-member Politburo
     Politburo of the Communist Party of China
     The Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China or Political bureau of the CPC Central Committee , formerly as Central Bureau before 1927, is a group of 24 people who oversee the Communist Party of China...
     
      and a 8-member Politburo Standing Committee
     Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
     The Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China is a committee consisting of the top leadership of the Communist Party of China, whose membership varies between 5 and 9 people. The inner workings of the PSC are not well known, although it is believed that decisions of the PSC are...
     
      were appointed as well. Qu Qiubai
     Qu Qiubai
     Qu Qiubai was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. He was a leader of the Communist Party of China in the late 1920s.-Early life:...
     
      and Zhang Guotao
     Zhang Guotao
     Zhang Guotao was a founding member and important leader of the Chinese Communist Party and bitter rival to Mao Zedong. During the 1920s he studied in the Soviet Union and became a key contact with the Comintern and organized the CCP labor movement in the United Front with the Guomindang...
     
      were elected representatives to the Comintern. Mao Zedong
     Mao Zedong
     Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
     
      was appointed chairman of the Front Committee, and Zhou Enlai
     Zhou Enlai
     Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976...
     
      head of the Central Organization Department
     Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee
     The Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee is a department of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee that controls staffing positions within the CPC....
     
     .
2. 2nd Plenary Session
   • Date: June 25–30, 1929
   • Location: Shanghai
     Shanghai
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   • Significance: The meeting adopted several resolutions on international and internal issues, aligning with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
     Communist Party of the Soviet Union
     The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...
     
     .
3. 3rd Plenary Session
   • Date: September 24–28, 1930
   • Location: Shanghai
   • Significance: Li Lisan's "left opportunist line" was repudiated. Mao Zedong was elected to the Politburo. A Central Soviet Bureau was established, replacing the Front Committee.
4. 4th Plenary Session
   • Date: January 7, 1931
   • Location: Shanghai
   • Significance: Wang Ming
     Wang Ming
     Wang Ming was a senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party and the mastermind of the famous 28 Bolsheviks group. Wang was also a major political rival of Mao Zedong during the 1930s, opposing Mao's nationalist deviation from the Comintern and orthodox Marxism and Leninism lines...
     
     's line gained the majority, and seizing the cities was proclaimed as the major task of the guerrilla army, against Mao Zedong's idea that the Red Army had to take control the countryside in order to encircle the cities.
5. 5th Plenary Session
   • Date: January 15–18, 1934
   • Location: Ruijin
     Ruijin
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   • Significance: Wang Ming and the "28 Bolsheviks" continued to hold the leadership, opposing any national alliance against Japan
     Japan
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      (Wang Ming's line was later branded as "left adventurism"). A "Central Secretariat" was established with Bo Gu, Zhang Wentian
     Zhang Wentian
     Zhang Wentian . He is also known as Luo Fu . His names in Wade-Giles are Chang Wen-t'ien and Lo Fu.Born in Jiangsu, he attended engineering school in Nanjing and also spent a year at the University of California. He later joined the Communist Party and was sent to study at Sun Yat-sen University...
     
     , Zhou Enlai and Xiang Ying
     Xiang Ying
     Xiang Ying was a war-time Chinese communist leader reaching the rank of political chief of staff of the New Fourth Army during World War II until his assassination by a member of his staff in 1941.- Biography :...
     
      as secretaries.
6. 6th Plenary Session
   • Date: September 29–November 6, 1938
   • Location: Yan'an
     Yan'an
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   • Significance: First meeting held after Mao Zedong was proclaimed leader of the CPC at the Zunyi Conference
     Zunyi Conference
     The Zunyi Conference was a meeting of the Communist Party of China in January of 1935 during the Long March. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the opposition led by Mao Zedong. The result was that Mao left the meeting in position to take...
     
      in 1935, and after the Long March
     Long March
     The Long March was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south...
     
     . Mao Zedong delivered a report on the Party's role in the Anti-Japanese War. Several organizational measures were taken.
7. 7th Plenary Session
   • Date: May 21 1944–April 20, 1945
   • Location: Yan'an
   • Significance: First meeting after 6 years. Although it officially lasted 11 months, it just held 8 meetings. The Secretariat and the Politburo were suspended and replaced by a Presidium of the 7th Plenary Session, with Mao Zedong as chairman and Zhu De
     Zhu De
     Zhu De was a Chinese militarist, politician, revolutionary, and one of the pioneers of the Chinese Communist Party. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1955 Zhu became one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army, of which he is regarded as the founder.-Early...
     
     , Liu Shaoqi
     Liu Shaoqi
     Liu Shaoqi was a Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and theorist. He was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, China's head of state, from 27 April 1959 to 31 October 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China...
     
     , Ren Bishi
     Ren Bishi
     Ren Bishi was a rising figure in the Chinese Communist Party until his death at the age of 46. He was born in Hunan and was ranked 5th in the 7th Politburo of the Communist Party of China.-References:...
     
      and Zhou Enlai as members. Reports on the Chonqing negotiations and on party urban activity were delivered by Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. A Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party praising Mao Zedong and repudiating Chen Duxiu
     Chen Duxiu
     Chen Duxiu played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy. Along with Li Dazhao, Chen was a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. He was its first General Secretary....
     
     , Li Lisan and Wang Ming was adopted. Preparations for the Party's 7th National Congress were made, after 17 years since the previous congress.

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