The Seventh National Congress of the CPC

The CPC held its Seventh National Congress in Yan'an from April 23 to June 11, 1945. A total of 547 full delegates and 208 alternate delegates attended the congress, representing 1.21 million Party members nationwide. The congress elected a new Central Committee.

Mao Zedong delivered a political report entitled "On Coalition Government." Zhu De delivered a military report "The Battle Front in the Liberated Areas." Liu Shaoqi reported on the revision of the Party's Constitution, and Zhou Enlai delivered a speech "On the United Front." Ren Bishi (1904-1950), Chen Yun and others also spoke at the congress.

The congress adopted a political resolution, a military resolution and a new Party Constitution. It defined the Party's political guideline, and agreed the political, economic and cultural programs of a new democratic government. It outlined the requirements for Chinese industrialization, and agreed to develop private capitalist economy that was beneficial to national economy and people's living standards. For the first time in a CPC document, productivity was made the norm to gauge the role of a political party in history.

The congress summarized the Party's experience of armed struggle, the united front, and strengthening the Party, and emphasized the importance of integrating theory with practice, forging close links with the people, and practicing self-criticism.

Mao's concluding speech was entitled "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains."

The new Constitution of the CPC stipulated that Mao Zedong Thought was the guiding principle of all work of the Party, thereby integrating the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong Thought was written into the Party Constitution.

The Seventh CPC National Congress was the most important congress of the CPC during the period of new democratic revolution.

中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨第七次全國(guó)代表大會(huì)

抗日戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)取得勝利前夕，1945年4月23日至6月11日，中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨第七次全國(guó)代表大會(huì)在延安舉行。出席大會(huì)的正式代表547人，候補(bǔ)代表208人，代表全國(guó)121萬(wàn)黨員，大會(huì)選舉產(chǎn)生了新的中央委員會(huì)。毛澤東在會(huì)上作《論聯(lián)合政府》的政治報(bào)告，朱德作《論解放區(qū)戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)》的軍事報(bào)告，劉少奇作《關(guān)于修改黨章的報(bào)告》，周恩來(lái)作《論統(tǒng)一戰(zhàn)線》的講話，任弼時(shí)、陳云等作了大會(huì)發(fā)言。

大會(huì)通過(guò)了政治決議案、軍事決議案和新的黨章，制定了黨的政治路線，制定了新民主主義國(guó)家在政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、文化方面的綱領(lǐng)，提出了實(shí)現(xiàn)中國(guó)工業(yè)化的宏偉任務(wù)，宣布要讓有利于國(guó)計(jì)民生的私人資本主義有一定程度的發(fā)展，并首次在黨的文件上提出要以生產(chǎn)力標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來(lái)評(píng)判一個(gè)政黨的歷史作用。大會(huì)總結(jié)了武裝斗爭(zhēng)、統(tǒng)一戰(zhàn)線、黨的建設(shè)經(jīng)驗(yàn)，深刻論述了黨在長(zhǎng)期奮斗中形成的三大作風(fēng)，即理論和實(shí)際相結(jié)合的作風(fēng)、和人民群眾緊密聯(lián)系在一起的作風(fēng)、自我批評(píng)的作風(fēng)。在大會(huì)閉幕式上，毛澤東致題為《愚公移山》的閉幕詞。大會(huì)通過(guò)的新黨章規(guī)定，以毛澤東思想為黨的一切工作的指針，從而實(shí)現(xiàn)了馬克思列寧主義基本原理同中國(guó)革命相結(jié)合的第一次歷史性飛躍。把毛澤東思想作為黨的指導(dǎo)思想并寫(xiě)入黨章，是中共七大的歷史性貢獻(xiàn)。

中共七大是中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨在新民主主義革命時(shí)期召開(kāi)的一次極其重要的全國(guó)代表大會(huì)，在革命面臨新的重大轉(zhuǎn)變的關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻，對(duì)全黨給予了及時(shí)正確的指導(dǎo)，為爭(zhēng)取抗戰(zhàn)的勝利和新民主主義革命在全國(guó)的勝利奠定了政治上、思想上、組織上的基礎(chǔ)。