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Jan 15—18,1934: The 5th Plenary Session of the 6th CPC Central Committee is held

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Updated: 2011-03-25 16:36

Jan 15, 1931: According to the CPC Central Committee's decision, the Central Bureau in Soviet area is set up in Xiaobu in Ningdu county of Jiangxi

The CPC Central Committee appointed Zhou Enlai as the secretary and commissioners including Zhou Enlai, Xiang Ying, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Ren Bishi, Yu Fei, Zeng Shan and members from the Hunan-Jiangxi border and CYL Central Committee. Xiang Ying was the acting secretary before Zhou Enlai took office. On Aug 30, 1931 the CPC Central Committee made "a resolution on the Party's organization problem of the Central Soviet Area." It decided that Zhou Enlai, Xiang Ying, Mao Zedong, Ren Bishi, Wang Jiaxiang, Gu Zuolin, Deng Fa, Zhu De were to be members of the Soviet Central Bureau, Mao Zedong as acting secretary and officially approved in October. In early November Xiang Ying became the acting secretary after the Ganzhou meeting.

Jan 15—18, 1934: The Fifth Plenary Session of the Sixth CPC Central Committee is held in Ruijin in Jiangxi province

The session discussed Bo Gu's report on current situation and Party's task, Chen Yun's report on worker's economic struggle in Kuomintang area and works of trade union and Zhang Wentian's report on Chinese Soviet movement and tasks. On Jan 18, the Conference adopted the "political resolution on the Fifth Plenary Session." The plenary session incorrectly concluded that the "direct revolutionary situation" existed in China, the fifth "anti-encirclement" was the "question of struggle between the Soviet road and colony road" and China's struggle for a complete victory of winning over Soviet China"; continue to implement the error strategy of the lower united front; continue to adhere to the "left" of the land policy, criticizing the so-called "rich peasant line"; in the Kuomintang areas, requiring the Party "to use the greatest power to strike for organizing and leading the struggle of working class "; affirm completely the "Left" errors since the Fourth Plenary Session, and so on. This made the "Left" errors to a climax.

Jan 15—17, 1935: An enlarged meeting of the politburo of the CPC is held in Zunyi

The meeting criticized the errors of the fifth "anti-encirclement" and the military leadership of the CPC Central Committee since the Long March. Zhang Wentian drafted "resolution on summary of CPC's fighting against the fifth 'anti-encirclement'," pointing out that the failure of the fifth "anti-encirclement" and serious loss after withdrawing from Soviet Area mainly due to a series of serious mistakes made by Bo Gu and Li De as military leadership. The meeting confirmed Mao Zedong's basic principles on the Red Army and restructured the central leading organs with Mao Zedong as member of Politburo Standing Committee. With abolishing the top military command of Bo Gu and Li De, the meeting decided Zhou Enlai, Zhu De as the military commander. Zhang Wentian took Bo's previous position. Subsequently, the CMC decided to set the Front Command with Zhu De as commander and Mao Zedong as political commissar. Then, again a team consisted of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang was set up to be responsible for the military action. Zuiyi conference ended the ruling of Wang Ming's "Left" dogmatism and established Mao Zedong's leadership in the Party and Red Army. In this meeting the Chinese Communist Party's independently used the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism to solve their own line, principles and policies. It saved the Party and the Red Army at the extremely dangerous time. It is a vital turning point to the Chinese Communist Party history, marking the change of Chinese Communist Party from childhood to maturity.

Jan 15, 1949: The CPC Central Military Commission further makes the decision on the military organization and designation

According to the development of the war, every Field Army is not suitable for military names instead of numbers arranged in sequence, Northwest, Central Plains, East China, Northeast China Field Army turn to the first, second, third, fourth field army. After the battle strategy, the Field Army has been reorganized. The same month, the armed forces adhering to the guerrilla war in the South were reorganized as Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border columns, Guangdong-Jiangxi-Hunan border columns, and Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi border columns; according to the Central Military Commission, guerrillas of the southern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, eastern Fujian, western Fujian and eastern Jiangxi were uniformly compiled into Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi border column. Guerrillas in other regions have been carried out reorganization successively. On the eve of the People's Liberation Army crossing the river, the guerrilla forces and the long-standing struggle Qiongya Hainan columns, has grown to 50,000 people.

Jan 15, 1956: More than 200,000 people from all walks of life gather in Tiananmen Square and hold General Assembly to celebrate the victory of the socialist transformation

On Jan 15, 1956 more than 200,000 people from all walks of life gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and held the General Assembly to celebrate the victory of the socialist transformation, celebrating the Beijing agriculture, handicraft industry to achieve full realization of co-operative and the country's first public-private partnerships of industry-wide capitalist industry and commerce. After Beijing, by the end of this month, major cities and more than 50 medium-sized cities have achieved all the public-private partnerships of capitalist industry and commerce.