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.

中國共產黨第七次全國代表大會

抗日戰爭取得勝利前夕，1945年4月23日至6月11日，中國共產黨第七次全國代表大會在延安舉行。出席大會的正式代表547人，候補代表208人，代表全國121萬黨員，大會選舉產生了新的中央委員會。毛澤東在會上作《論聯合政府》的政治報告，朱德作《論解放區戰場》的軍事報告，劉少奇作《關于修改黨章的報告》，周恩來作《論統一戰線》的講話，任弼時、陳云等作了大會發言。

大會通過了政治決議案、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家在政治、經濟、文化方面的綱領，提出了實現中國工業化的宏偉任務，宣布要讓有利于國計民生的私人資本主義有一定程度的發展，并首次在黨的文件上提出要以生產力標準來評判一個政黨的歷史作用。大會總結了武裝斗爭、統一戰線、黨的建設經驗，深刻論述了黨在長期奮斗中形成的三大作風，即理論和實際相結合的作風、和人民群眾緊密聯系在一起的作風、自我批評的作風。在大會閉幕式上，毛澤東致題為《愚公移山》的閉幕詞。大會通過的新黨章規定，以毛澤東思想為黨的一切工作的指針，從而實現了馬克思列寧主義基本原理同中國革命相結合的第一次歷史性飛躍。把毛澤東思想作為黨的指導思想并寫入黨章，是中共七大的歷史性貢獻。

中共七大是中國共產黨在新民主主義革命時期召開的一次極其重要的全國代表大會，在革命面臨新的重大轉變的關鍵時刻，對全黨給予了及時正確的指導，為爭取抗戰的勝利和新民主主義革命在全國的勝利奠定了政治上、思想上、組織上的基礎。