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Jan 4—Feb 5,1927: Mao Zedong visits the farmers' movement

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Updated: 2011-03-25 16:38

Jan 4—Feb 5, 1927: Mao Zedong returns to Hunan to visit the farmers' movement

From Jan 4 to Feb 5, Mao Zedong returned to Hunan to visit the farmers' movement. On Feb 16, Mao wrote to the CPC Central Committee and proposed that solving the land problems is not a matter for propaganda but for immediate implementation. In March, Mao issued a "report on the farmers' movement in Hunan", rejecting the suspicions and accusations of farmers' movements inside and outside the Party, summing up the experience of farmers' movements and proposing the core issue of the Chinese democratic revolution—the theory and policy of farmers' issues.

Jan 4—8, 1990: The State Council holds national work conference on economic reform

From Jan 4 to 8, the State Council held national work conference on economic reform to discuss the 1990 reform work task focused on enterprise reform. The conference proposed 7 major measures to improve and develop the contract responsibility system and director accountability. Li Peng delivered a speech on "reform and opening forwards up to a healthy track", stressing that the rectification and deepening of reform are not mutually exclusive but complementary. The purpose of rectification is to create more favorable conditions for reform and opening up, while in rectification, we should focus on a number of reform measures for rectification.