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Chinese Communist Party Information
The
9th National Congress of
The Communist Party of China (CPC)
The 9th National Congress
of
The Communist Party of China
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Date: April
1-24, 1969
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Venue:
Beijing
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Number of Delegates: 1,512
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Party Membership: 22 million
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Major
Contents: The congress was held in unusual circumstances
because the CPC had suffered a lot during the "cultural
revolution", the Party committees of provinces, autonomous
regions and municipalities and various grass-roots Party
organizations had not been restored or established and the
majority part of the Party members had not returned to regular
Party activities. Lin Biao delivered the political report, in
which he applied the "theory of continued revolution under the
dictatorship of the proletariat", expounded the formation and
importance of this theory, reviewed the preparation and
execution of the "cultural revolution" under the guidance of
this theory, and extravagantly lauded the "great achievements"
scored in the "cultural revolution". In the new Party
Constitution adopted at the congress, Lin Biao was put down in
the general program as "Comrade Mao Zedong's successor". The
congress legitimized the theory and practice of the "cultural
revolution" and solidified the position of Lin Biao and Jiang
Qing in the Party Central Committee. The ideological, political
and organizational guidelines of the Ninth Congress were utterly
wrong.
The congress elected 170 members and 109 alternate members to
the Central Committee, of whom, only 53 had been members or
alternate members of the Eighth Central Committee. At the First
Plenary Session of the Ninth CPC Central Committee, Mao Zedong
was elected chairman, and Lin Biao vice chairman, of the Central
Committee. The members of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the Central Committee were Mao Zedong, Lin
Biao, Chen Boda, Zhou Enlai and Kang Sheng.
(Source: People's Daily Online)
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Members of Standing Committee of Political Bureau
From left: Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Kang Sheng, Chen
Boda
Chairman Mao and Lin
Biao on the 9th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
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