The Congress proclaimed the founding of the CPC and decided the Party’s main task was to organize the working class around China and lead the labor movement.
The uprising marked the point in time when the Communist Party of China began to create an army and lead armed struggles against the Kuomintang’s rule. The date was defined as Army Day.
The meeting decided the CPC’s general policy in organizing and leading the Agrarian Revolutionary War (1927-1937) and the armed struggles.
The Reorganizing established principles, such as the CPC will control guns and all people are equal in the army, marking the CPC’s first successful attempts at building a people-oriented army.
This base was the first rural revolutionary base. From then on, the revolutionaries led by the CPC focused on rural areas instead of urban areas, as in the Russian revolution.
The Red Army spent nearly two years crossing the mountains, rivers and grasslands in 11 provinces from Ruijing in East China’s Jiangxi province to Huining in Northwest China’s Gansu province.
The meeting, known as the turning point in the development of the CPC, ended some leaders’ escape mentality and established a new central leadership represented by Mao Zedong to lead the Long March.
The meeting determined a policy for uniting all Chinese in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression(1937-1945).
The meeting decided to rely on people instead of only armed soldiers in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression(1937-1945).
The meeting established Mao Zedong Thought as the CPC’s guiding ideology.
The session decided the Party would change its focus from rural areas to urban areas in preparation for building a new China.
The conference in Beijing elected Mao Zedong as the chairman of the Central People’s Government, and decided the national anthem and national flag.
The founding of the PRC marks the beginning of the country's great rejuvenation. The date is declared National Day.
The Congress approved the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China.
The Congress determined the country’s main task was to develop social productivity and achieve the industrialization of the country.
The session decided to shift the focus of the Party's work to socialist modernization and set a policy of reform and opening-up to the outside world initiated by Deng Xiaoping.
The Congress put forward that the country will build socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The major contribution of the Congress was that it discussed the theory on the primary phase of socialism.
The Congress first put forward that the country would build a socialist market economy.
The Congress decided to include Deng Xiaoping Theory as the CPC’s guiding ideology.
Jiang Zemin first propounded the thought of the Three Represents during his Guangdong tour in February 2000. Jiang stressed that the thought constitutes the foundation of the Party.
The Congress first put forward the idea of ecological civilization.
At the Congress, the Scientific Development Outlook put forward by Hu Jintao would be the guiding ideology of the CPC.
The session first focused on discussing the rule of law and a decision on comprehensively advancing the rule of law was adopted.
Xi Jinping called for intensified efforts in supply-side structural reform.
