The Second Plenary Session of the Seventh CPC Central Committee

From March 5 to 13, 1949, the Seventh Central Committee of the CPC held its second plenary session at Xibaipo.

This meeting was held following the victories in the Liaoxi-Shenyang, Huai-Hai and Beiping-Tianjin campaigns and the defeat of the main forces of the KMT, and prior to a nationwide victory. A total of 34 Central Committee members and 19 alternate members attended the session, and 11 people were present at the meeting as non-voting members.

The session listened to and discussed Mao Zedong's report, approved the work of the Political Bureau since the first plenary session in June 1945, approved the proposals on convening a new political consultative conference and on founding a democratic coalition government, and approved Mao Zedong's statement indicating the Party's willingness to negotiate peace with the Nanjing-based KMT government on the basis of eight terms.

In line with Mao's report, the session set out policies to achieve rapid nationwide victory in the war, and drew a blueprint for the subsequent construction of the New Democracy. It also defined the Party's basic political, economic and foreign policies, set the general strategy and tactics for transforming China from an agricultural to an industrial country and from a new-democratic to a socialist society, and discussed how to shift the Party's focus from the rural areas to the cities.

The session pointed out that after achieving a nationwide victory and solving the land issue, China would face two principal conflicts – internally, between the working class and the bourgeoisie and, externally, between China and imperialist countries.

The session particularly emphasized the need to strengthen ideological education inside the Party, so as to prevent the bourgeois ideology from corroding the Party ranks. It reminded Party members to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their work, continue a plain lifestyle, and preserve the virtues of hard struggle.

The session was held at a critical point in the Chinese revolution and had far-reaching significance. The policies adopted at the session helped ensure a nationwide victory, and served as guidance for the various undertakings of the new government.

中共七屆二中全會(huì)

1949年3月5日至13日，中共中央在河北省平山縣西柏坡村召開了中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨第七屆中央委員會(huì)第二次全體會(huì)議。全會(huì)是在遼沈、平津、淮海三大戰(zhàn)役取得偉大勝利，國(guó)民黨軍隊(duì)主力被殲滅，中國(guó)人民解放戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)即將取得全國(guó)勝利前夕召開的。出席全會(huì)的有中央委員34人，候補(bǔ)中央委員19人，列席會(huì)議11人。

全會(huì)聽取并討論了毛澤東的報(bào)告，批準(zhǔn)了1945年6月七屆一中全會(huì)以來(lái)中央政治局的工作，批準(zhǔn)了由中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨發(fā)起的關(guān)于召開新的政治協(xié)商會(huì)議及成立民主聯(lián)合政府的建議，批準(zhǔn)了毛澤東關(guān)于以八項(xiàng)條件作為與南京政府進(jìn)行和平談判基礎(chǔ)的聲明。全會(huì)根據(jù)毛澤東的報(bào)告，制定了促進(jìn)革命取得全國(guó)勝利和組織這個(gè)勝利的方針，確定了革命勝利后新民主主義建設(shè)的藍(lán)圖；規(guī)定了全國(guó)勝利后，黨在政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、外交方面應(yīng)當(dāng)采取的基本政策，以及使中國(guó)由農(nóng)業(yè)國(guó)轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)楣I(yè)國(guó)、由新民主主義社會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)變到社會(huì)主義社會(huì)的總的任務(wù)和主要途徑；討論了黨的工作重心由鄉(xiāng)村向城市實(shí)行戰(zhàn)略轉(zhuǎn)移的問題。這次全會(huì)指出，革命在全國(guó)勝利并解決了土地問題以后，中國(guó)還存在著兩種基本矛盾，國(guó)內(nèi)是工人階級(jí)和資產(chǎn)階級(jí)的矛盾，國(guó)外是中國(guó)和帝國(guó)主義國(guó)家的矛盾。

這次全會(huì)還特別強(qiáng)調(diào)應(yīng)加強(qiáng)黨的思想建設(shè)，防止資產(chǎn)階級(jí)思想侵蝕黨的隊(duì)伍，提醒全黨在革命勝利后務(wù)必繼續(xù)保持謙虛、謹(jǐn)慎、不驕、不躁的作風(fēng)，務(wù)必繼續(xù)保持艱苦奮斗的作風(fēng)。

中共七屆二中全會(huì)是在中國(guó)革命轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)頭召開的一次具有深遠(yuǎn)歷史意義的會(huì)議，它所作出的各項(xiàng)政策規(guī)定，不僅對(duì)迎接中國(guó)革命在全國(guó)的勝利，而且對(duì)新中國(guó)的建設(shè)事業(yè)，都具有巨大的指導(dǎo)作用。