The Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the CPC (Enlarged)

It was held in Yangjialing, Yan'an from May 21, 1944 to April 20, 1945. The Plenum was attended by 17 members and alternate members of the Central Committee and 12 heads of the Central Bureau, sub-bureaus and other Party organizations.

The Plenum elected Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi and Zhou Enlai, these five comrades, to form the Bureau of the Congress, with Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Central Committee and Chairman of the Bureau of the Seventh Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee. During the Plenum, the Bureau handled the daily work of the Party Central Committee, and the Political Bureau and the Secretariat temporarily ceased to exercise their powers.

Mao Zedong made a working report on behalf of the Political Bureau, and Zhou Enlai made a report on the situation of the Chongqing Negotiations. The Plenum discussed and adopted the "Instructions of the Central Committee on Urban Work" drafted by Mao Zedong, the list of candidates for the Bureau of the Seventh Party Congress, the Delegates' Qualification Committee and the meeting schedule, as well as the political and military reports to be made to the Seventh Party Congress and the draft Party Constitution to be submitted for discussion at the Seventh Party Congress.

The Plenum adopted the Party's "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues", which applied dialectical and historical materialism to draw conclusions on certain major historical issues of the Party, liquidated the Party's successive opportunist lines, especially Wang Ming's "left-leaning" opportunist line, profoundly criticized the mistakes of Wang Ming's "left-leaning" opportunist line and its hazards in political, military, organizational and ideological aspects, analyzed the social, historical and ideological roots of the erroneous line, proposed ways to overcome it, and enabled the Party to achieve unity and solidarity on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought.

The Plenum marked the triumphant conclusion of the Rectification Campaign and made full preparation for the triumphant convening of the Seventh National Congress of the Party.