The Third Plenary Session in the History of the Party

A correct understanding of the important meetings in the history of the Party is one of the important contents of the study and education of the history of the Party. On the occasion of the successful conclusion of the third Plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, a correct understanding of the third Plenary session in the history of the party is of great enlightening significance for the whole party to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the plenary session and better promote the building of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation in an all-round way with Chinese-style modernization.
The Third Plenary Session before the reform and opening up. From the founding of the Party in 1921 to the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party in 1978, the Party's National Congress was held 11 times, and the Third Plenary Session of the Party was held 4 times. The Party's First to Fifth Congresses did not convene a plenary session of the Central Committee. The Party Constitution adopted by the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1928 stipulated that "the Central Committee shall convene meetings of the plenary committee on schedule." Except for the failure to convene the Third Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee of the Party due to the "Cultural Revolution", the other Third Plenary Sessions were convened on schedule.
The four Third Plenary Sessions held before the reform and opening up were: the Third Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee during the New Democratic Revolution (September 24-28, 1930), and the Third Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee during the socialist revolution and construction period. (June 6-9, 1950), the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee (September 20-October 9, 1957), and the Third Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee (July 16-21, 1977). The Third Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee ended the rule of Li Lisan's "Left" adventurous mistakes in the whole party; the Third Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee was held in the early days of the founding of New China. The strategic line and program of action proposed by the meeting are important for consolidating the people's democratic dictatorship and restoring the national economy. The Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee passed the "Regulations on Improving the Industrial Management System (Draft)" and other documents, strive to improve the national administrative system and economic management system; the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Tenth Central Committee announced that Deng Xiaoping officially returned after the end of the "Cultural Revolution.
The Third Plenary Session since the reform and opening up. With the gradual improvement and strict implementation of the party's various systems, from the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party in 1978 to the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party this year, the Third Plenary Session has been held 10 times as scheduled.
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (December 18-22, 1978) realized a great turning point of far-reaching significance in the history of the party since the founding of New China, and started the great journey of reform and opening up and socialist modernization. Since then, the reform has not stopped and the opening up has become the historical consciousness of the Chinese Communists.
The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Economic System Reform" adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the Twelfth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (October 20, 1984) changed the formulation of "planned economy as the mainstay, supplemented by market regulation" and confirmed that my country's socialist economy It is a planned commodity economy based on public ownership. An important element in the reform of the economic system is to realize the transformation from the planned price system to the market price system. The third plenary session of the party's thirteen (September 26, 1988 to 30) to undertake the task of exploring the way. The plenary session approved the guidelines, policies, and measures proposed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to govern the economic environment, rectify economic order, and promote comprehensive reforms that complement each other, and passed the "Preliminary Plan on Price and Wage Reform.
After governance and rectification, on the basis of Deng Xiaoping's southern talks, the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1992 established the establishment of a socialist market economic system as the goal of economic system reform. Accordingly, the third Plenary session of the 14th CPC Central Committee (November 11-14, 1993) adopted the decision of the CPC Central Committee on several issues concerning the establishment of a socialist market economic system, which became the action program for the reform of the economic system in the 1990 s. In 1997, the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a plan for China's cross-century development. To achieve the cross-century development goals, it is necessary to maintain the stable development of agriculture and rural areas. At the same time, it is also necessary to summarize the achievements and experience of rural reform in the past 20 years. Therefore, the Third Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (October 12-14, 1998) passed the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Agriculture and Rural Work", which put forward the goal of building a new socialist countryside with Chinese characteristics. And guidelines.
In the 21st century, after the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in 2002, in view of the fact that the framework of the market economic system was initially established but the market development was relatively low, the Third Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (October 11-14, 2003) passed the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Issues Concerning the Improvement of the Socialist Market Economic System" and made plans and arrangements for the reform of economic system, it is proposed to encourage the development of the non-public economy, change the dual structure of urban and rural areas, and establish a modern property rights system. In 2007, the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "establish a long-term mechanism for promoting agriculture with industry and leading the countryside with cities". In addition, the issue of agriculture, rural areas and farmers has always been the top priority of the party and the country since the reform and opening up. The Third Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (October 9-12, 2008) once again focused on rural reform and passed the "Decisions of the Central Committee of the CPC it is proposed to strengthen the construction of rural system, actively develop modern agriculture, and accelerate the development of rural public utilities, so as to lay a solid foundation for promoting scientific development.
After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is facing new tasks. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (November 9-12, 2013) once again focused on reform and passed the ''Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Comprehensively Deepening Reform "Decisions on Several Major Issues", a total of 336 major reform measures were introduced. The third Plenary session of the 11th CPC Central Committee was epoch-making, and the third Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was also epoch-making, opening a new era of comprehensively deepening reform and promoting reform through the overall design of the system. The new era has put forward new tasks and new requirements. Compared with the requirements of realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, the establishment and function allocation of the party and state institutions are still not suitable. Based on this, the third Plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee (February 26-28, 2018) adopted the decision of the CPC Central Committee on deepening the Reform of Party and State institutions and the Plan for deepening the Reform of Party and State institutions. the aim is to provide a strong organizational guarantee for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity through institutional reform.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2022 opened a new journey to comprehensively promote the construction of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization. On the basis of the completion of personnel arrangements and the promotion of institutional reform at the first and second plenary sessions of the CPC Central Committee, the third Plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (July 15-18, 2024) was solemnly held. The decision of the CPC Central Committee on further comprehensively deepening Reform and promoting Chinese-style Modernization adopted at the meeting is a programmatic document guiding the further deepening of reform in the new journey. This plenary session is another extraordinary third plenary session in the history of the Party.
Characteristics of the Third Plenary Session. As mentioned above, the 14 Third Plenary Sessions in the history of the party, especially the 10 Third Plenary Sessions since the reform and opening up, have made a series of decisions of great significance one after another, and have become the promotion of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the realization of China. An important node in the process of the great national rejuvenation. Although the themes of each Third Plenary Session and the major decisions made are different, there are commonalities in the personality. The third Plenary session of the CPC Central Committee often embodies the policy program of the new central collective leadership, and is a pledging meeting to roll up sleeves and work hard after personnel arrangements and institutional reforms. Summarizing the previous Third Plenary Sessions since the reform and opening up, it can be said that "reform (opening up)", "system" and "economy (development)" are their common keywords.
The reform and opening up initiated by the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party is a great awakening of the party. This great awakening gave birth to the party's great creation from theory to practice, and it is also an important magic weapon for the party and the people to catch up with the times. Reform is a powerful driving force for economic and social development. Without reform, it is impossible for us to walk out of a correct path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Reform and opening up is the key to determining the fate of contemporary China, and the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Reform is only in progress, not completed. How to promote the realization of Chinese-style modernization? Only reform. The third Plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee took advantage of the situation, focused on reform, and transformed the strategic plan of further comprehensively deepening reform into a powerful force to promote the realization of Chinese-style modernization.
The system is a fundamental, overall, stable, and long-term issue related to the development of the party and the country. From the new era to the new era, the major decisions made by the third Plenary session of the CPC Central Committee have many new connotations and characteristics, one of which is that the weight of system construction is getting heavier and heavier. The more deepening the reform, the more deep-seated system and mechanism problems will be touched, the higher the requirements for the top-level design of the reform, the stronger the requirements for the systematicness, integrity, and coordination of the reform, and the corresponding establishment of rules and regulations. The heavier the task of building the system. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China stressed that we should adhere to the system construction as the main line, strengthen the top-level design and overall planning, carry out simultaneous efforts to break down the basic system, improve the basic system and innovate the important system. This main line is the inheritance, development and application of the valuable experience of comprehensively deepening reform since the reform and opening up, especially in the new era.
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China shifted the focus of the work of the whole party to the socialist modernization drive, and began to focus on economic construction. From single public ownership to public ownership as the main body, the common development of multiple ownership economies and the adherence to the "two unshakable", from the traditional planned economic system to the unprecedented socialist market economic system to making the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources And better play the role of the government, a series of major reform decisions have shown that focusing on economic construction is the key to rejuvenating the country, and development is the party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, it is the basis and key to solving all problems in our country. To further comprehensively deepen reform and promote Chinese-style modernization, we must take high-quality development as the primary task.

Source: Learning Times