Word of the Day | 90th anniversary of the Zunyi Meeting

On January 15, 2025, a conference to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Zunyi Conference was held in Zunyi, Guizhou.

A conference was held on January 15, 2025 in Zunyi, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Zunyi Meeting.

【Knowledge Points】

In January 1935, the Zunyi Conference held during the Long March was a life-or-death turning point in the history of our party. On the eve of the Zunyi Conference, the main force of the Central Red Army dropped sharply from more than 86,000 people at the beginning of the Long March to more than 30,000 people. It was intercepted by heavy troops in the front and pursued by a large army in the back. It fell into a crisis of being passively beaten and on the verge of annihilation. After the Zunyi Conference, the party and the Red Army turned danger into safety and turned danger into safety. The situation of China’s revolutionary struggle changed from passivity to initiative. Since then, China’s revolutionary cause has continued to move from victory to new and greater victories.

Why did such earth-shaking historical changes occur before and after the Zunyi Conference? What are its profound historical reasons and internal logic? In this regard, the “Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party’s Centenary Struggle” passed by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China profoundly summarized and revealed that: the Zunyi Conference “actually established that Comrade Mao Zedong The leadership position of the Party Central Committee and the Red Army began to establish the leadership position of the Marxist correct line with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative in the Party Central Committee, and began to form the first generation of the party’s central leadership group with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core, opening up the party’s independent solution A new stage of practical problems in the Chinese revolution.” The distinctive features of the Zunyi Conference are to adhere to the truth, correct mistakes, establish the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee, and creatively formulate and implement strategies and strategies that conform to the characteristics of the Chinese revolution. This is still very relevant today.

For a country and a political party, the core of leadership is crucial. As the world’s major changes unseen in a century accelerate and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation enters a critical period, strategic opportunities, risks and challenges coexist. On the Long March of the new era, we still have many “snowy mountains” and “grasslands” to cross, and many “Loushanguan” and “Lazikou” to conquer. At critical moments when the storm is high and the waves are high, only a strong core of leadership that is far-sighted, in charge of the overall situation, and strategizing can respond to a hundred responses and turn the tide, tightly unite the entire party, the entire army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and gather powerful forces to overcome difficulties. Winning new great victories amid difficulties. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has overcome a series of major risks and challenges with great historical initiative, great political courage, and strong responsibility, and solved many problems that have long been wanted to be solved but have not been solved. We have solved many difficult problems, accomplished many major things that we wanted to do but failed to do in the past, and promoted historic achievements and changes in the cause of the party and the country. Entering a new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core unites and leads the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups in the country to promote historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country, and to advance the road of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation through Chinese modernization. The wider.

The conference commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Zunyi Conference emphasized that the significant contributions of the Zunyi Conference will always be remembered in history, and the spirit of the Zunyi Conference will always shine. Inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the Zunyi Conference on the new journey, we must deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments” and enhance the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of the “two maintenances”; consciously promote the sinicization of Marxism with the times, and persist in using Xi Jinping’s new Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the Times We should focus on the thought of righteousness and cast our soul; always insist on walking our own path independently, and strengthen our confidence and determination to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese modernization; vigorously carry forward the revolutionary tradition of daring to fight and dare to win, and gather together to overcome difficulties and move forward bravely. The power of action.

【Important speech】

During the Long March, the Zunyi Conference held by the Party Central Committee was a life-or-death turning point in the history of our party. This meeting established Comrade Mao Zedong’s leadership position in the Red Army and the Party Central Committee, began to establish the leadership position of the Marxist correct line with Comrade Mao Zedong as the main representative in the Party Central Committee, and began to form the first generation of the Party with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core. The collective leadership of the central government is the most important guarantee for our party and the revolutionary cause to turn crisis into safety and continuously open up new prospects.

During the Long March, the CPC Central Committee convened the Zunyi Meeting, a critical turning point in the history of the CPC. This meeting established Mao Zedong as the leader of the Red Army and the CPC Central Committee. It also began the establishment of the correct Marxist line, represented by Mao Zedong, in the CPC Central Committee, and began the formation of CPC’s first generation of collective leadership, with Mao Zedong at the core. These events were instrumental in leading the CPC and China’s revolution out of danger and towards new promise.

——On October 21, 2016, Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at a meeting commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army’s Long March.

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China Daily English Dianjin Studio (This article was first published on the “Study Powerful Country” learning platform)

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