📅 15 Sèptèmber 1956
The first Party congress after the founding of the PRC opened in Beijing. Its program called for socialist construction and a more regularized party-state, showing how post-revolutionary sovereignty...
📅 20 Sèptèmber 1954
The First National People’s Congress adopted the PRC’s first constitution, defining state institutions and socialist goals. The document formalized a new constitutional order after civil war and...
📅 30 Yüni 1950
The law abolished landlord landownership and redistributed land to rural households. It broke a deeply unequal agrarian structure and gave many peasants a direct material stake in the new order, while...
📅 15 Yüni 1953
Mao articulated a line for gradual transition toward socialism, linking industrialization to the transformation of agriculture, handicrafts and private industry. This marked a shift from the Common...
📅 20 Sèptèmber 1954
The Constitution established the institutions of the new republic and recognized state, cooperative, individual and capitalist economic forms within a transition toward socialism. It gave legal form...
📅 15 Sèptèmber 1956
The Congress declared that socialist transformation of ownership was largely complete and made the development of productive forces a central task. It recognized the tension between an advanced...
📅 5 Mei 1958
The second session of the Eighth Party Congress endorsed a drive to achieve rapid industrial and agricultural growth through mass mobilization. The campaign sought to close the gap with advanced...
📅 2 Yüli 1959
Senior leaders met to discuss economic conditions and the Great Leap. Peng Dehuai’s criticism of exaggerated claims and rural hardship was treated as a political challenge, and he was purged. The...
📅 14 Yanüari 1961
The Ninth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee adopted a policy to rebalance the national economy after the Great Leap. It prioritized agriculture and essential consumer goods, cut excessive...
📅 15 Mart 1961
From 15 to 23 March, a central work conference discussed and adopted draft commune regulations, later known as the “Sixty Articles for Agriculture.” The revisions strengthened the production team as...
📅 11 Yanüari 1962
The large national conference assessed the economic catastrophe and called for practical correction. Liu Shaoqi’s frank acknowledgment of the crisis represented a rare moment of high-level openness....
