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Chinese Communist Party Information
The
8th National Congress of
The Communist Party of China (CPC)
The 8th National
Congress of The Communist Party of China
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Date:
September 15-27, 1956
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Venue:
Beijing
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Number of Delegates:
1,026 full delegates and 107 alternate
delegates
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Party Membership:
10.73 million
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Major Contents: This is the first CPC
national congress since the Party came into power in 1949. It
was held at a time when socialist transformation in China had
been in the main accomplished and the Party was faced with new
situations and new tasks. Mao Zedong gave the opening address.
Liu Shaoqi delivered the political report. Zhou Enlai made the
report on the proposals for the Second Five-Year-Plan
(1958-1962) for the development of the national economy. Deng
Xiaoping delivered the report on the revision of the CPC
Constitution. It was pointed out at the congress that, as the
socialist system has been basically established in China, the
principal contradiction within the country was no longer the
contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie but
the one resulted from the need of the people for rapid economic
and cultural development which fell short of their requirements.
The chief task confronting the entire nation was to concentrate
all efforts on developing the productive forces, industrializing
the country and gradually meeting the people's growing economic
and cultural needs. The congress stressed the issue of the
building of the Party in power, emphasized the need to uphold
democratic centralism and collective leadership, opposed the
personality cult, promoted democracy within the Party and
cemented the Party's ties with the masses. Hence, the congress
gave directions for the development of the socialist causes and
the building of the Party in future.
The congress elected a new Central Committee composed of 97
members and 73 alternate members. At the First Plenary Session
of the Eighth CPC Central Committee, new leading bodies were
elected with Mao Zedong as chairman of the Central Committee,
Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Chen Yun as vice-chairmen and
Deng Xiaoping as general secretary. These six people were also
elected to form the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee.
(Source: People's Daily Online)
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Members of Standing Committee of Political Bureau
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