The September Meeting

The September Meeting

From September 8 to 13, 1948, the CPC Central Committee held an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau in Xibaipo Village, its temporary seat in Hebei Province. This was known as the September Meeting.

This meeting had the largest attendance of any since the Japanese surrender. The meeting examined the past work of the Party and set the tasks for the period ahead.

Mao Zedong delivered a report on the international situation, the Party's strategic tasks, the nature of the future government, the unification of finances, and intra-Party democracy and discipline. He said, "Our goal is to overthrow the KMT. Our army will continue to advance, our production will continue to increase, and we will reinforce our discipline. We will transition from guerrilla warfare to regular warfare, increase our forces to five million, wipe out 500 regular enemy brigades and defeat the KMT within five years."

The meeting set the following goals:

•to destroy the reactionary rule of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism;

•to build a people's democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat and based on the worker-peasant alliance with participating bourgeoisie democrats;

•to adopt the system of people's congress based on democratic centralism, rather than the parliamentary system of the bourgeoisie;

•to develop a new-democratic economy, which should not be named "new capitalism" because the economy would be dominated by the state-run sector; and

•to transition from the new-democratic economy to a socialist economy.

The meeting had made a full military, political and organizational preparation for completely defeating the KMT reactionary regime and winning a nationwide victory.

九月会议

1948年9月8日至13日，中共中央在河北省平山县西柏坡村召开了政治局扩大会议，即九月会议，这是自抗战胜利以来到会人数最多的一次中央会议。

会议的任务是总结检查过去时期党的工作，规定今后时期党的任务和奋斗目标。毛泽东在会上作了重要报告，报告就国际形势、战略任务、政权性质、财政统一以及发展党内民主和加强纪律等八个问题作了深刻论述。毛泽东提出：我们的战略方针是打倒国民党。战略任务是军队向前进，生产长一寸，加强纪律性，由游击战争过渡到正规战争，建军五百万，歼敌正规军五百个旅，五年左右根本上打倒国民党。

会议明确提出，打倒帝国主义、封建主义和官僚资本主义的反动专政，建立无产阶级领导的、以工农联盟为基础的、还有资产阶级民主分子参加的人民民主专政；政治制度采用民主集中制的人民代表会议制度，而不采用资产阶级议会制；关于社会经济，叫“新资本主义”不妥，整个国民经济还是新民主主义经济，起决定作用的是国营经济；要努力发展国家经济，由发展新民主主义经济过渡到社会主义。