Lane 2 of 7
Its mark
41 events
党内决定
Party decisions.
党内决定
What it holds
Congresses, plenums, directives, constitutions, leadership changes, purges at the top. What the centre decided and who won the argument.
What it refuses
Not implementation. A directive belongs here; what a county did with it belongs in Campaigns.
By decade
41 EVENTS · TAP A DECADE'40'50'60'70'80'90'00'10'20'30'40'50'60'70'80'90'00'10'20
The events 事件41
Oldest first. Every row opens its event, with its sources on its own page.
- July 1921First National Congress, Shanghaidocumented
- July 1922Second Congress, the Party joins the Cominterndocumented
- January 1924The First United Frontdocumented
- 7 August 1927The August Seventh Conferencedocumented
- November 1931The Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed, Jiangxidocumented
- January 1935The Zunyi Conferencedocumented
- 22 August 1937The Red Army is renamed the Eighth Route Armydocumented
- 22 September 1937The Second United Front declareddocumented
- October 1938The Sixth Plenum; Mao defeats Wang Ming's linedocumented
- April 1945Seventh Congress, Mao Zedong Thought written into the Party constitutiondocumented
- 30 June 1949Lean to one sidedocumented
- 1 October 1949The People's Republic is proclaimeddocumented
- 1954The Gao Gang and Rao Shushi affairdocumented
- September 1954The first Constitution of the PRCdocumented
- September 1956Eighth Congressdocumented
- May 1958The Great Leap Forward adopteddocumented
- August 1958The Beidaihe Conference, people's communessupported
- July 1959The Lushan Conferencesupported
- January 1962The Seven Thousand Cadres Conferencedocumented
- 16 May 1966The May Sixteenth Notificationsupported
- August 1966The Eleventh Plenum and the Sixteen Pointsdocumented
- April 1969Ninth Congress, Lin Biao named successorsupported
- 13 September 1971The Lin Biao incidentsupported
- 8 January 1976Zhou Enlai diesdocumented
- 9 September 1976Mao Zedong diesdocumented
- 6 October 1976The Gang of Four arresteddocumented
- December 1978The Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committeedocumented
- June 1981The Resolution on Party Historydocumented
- December 1982The 1982 Constitutiondocumented
- January 1992Deng's southern tourdocumented
- October 1992Fourteenth Congress, the socialist market economydocumented
- February 1997Deng Xiaoping diesdocumented
- November 2002Sixteenth Congress, Hu Jintao; the Three Representsdocumented
- November 2012Eighteenth Congress, Xi Jinping takes the leadershipdocumented
- November 2013The Third Plenum reform decisiondocumented
- March 2018Presidential term limits removeddocumented
- November 2021The third historical resolutiondocumented
- October 2022Twentieth Congress, a third termdocumented
- 2023Qin Gang removed as foreign ministerdocumented
- March 2023A third term as Presidentsupported
- March 2026The Fifteenth Five-Year Plansupported