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Chinese Communist Party Information
The
11th National Congress of
The Communist Party of China (CPC)
The 11th National Congress
of
The Communist Party of China. The two portraits on
the wall are Chairman Mao and
Hua Guofeng (Mao appointed
successor)
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Date: August 12-18, 1977
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Venue:
Beijing
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Number of Delegates: 1,510
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Party mMmbership: 35 million
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Major Contents: Hua Guofeng made a political report, Ye
Jianying made a report on the revision of the Party Constitution
and Deng Xiaoping delivered a closing speech. The congress
summed up the struggle against the "gang of four", declared the
10-year-long "cultural revolution" ended and reiterated that the
fundamental task for the Party in the new period was to make
China a powerful and modern socialist state within the century.
It played a positive role in criticizing the "gang of four" and
mobilizing the whole Party and the nation to build China into a
powerful and modern country. But as restricted by the historical
conditions at that time and the influence of Hua Guofeng's wrong
principle of "two whatevers" ("we will resolutely defend
whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made and unswervingly
follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave"), the congress
failed to put right, but continued to affirm instead, the
erroneous theories, policies and slogans of the "cultural
revolution". Consequently, the congress did not accomplish the
task of setting wrong things right theoretically and in terms of
the Party's guidelines.
The congress elected 201 members and 132 alternate members to
form the new Central Committee. The First Plenary Session of the
11th CPC Central Committee elected Hua Guofeng chairman, and Ye
Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian and Wang Dongxing vice
chairmen, of the Central Committee. These five people were also
elected to form the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau.
(Source: People's Daily Online)
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Members of Standing Committee of Political Bureau
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