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The Second Plenary Session of the 12th CCP Central Committee: Rectification and Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

David S. G. Goodman
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Hu Yaobang in his report to the 12th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) during September 1982 announced that the Party would implement a three-year programme of rectification starting in the second half of 1983. Meeting in Beijing on 11–12 October 1983 (and after a two-day preparatory meeting) the CCP Central Committee duly adopted at its second plenary session a “Decision on Party consolidation.” Under nine separate headings that resolution provided a relatively detailed prescription for the programme, which it announced would start during the winter of 1983.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 97 , March 1984 , pp. 84 - 90
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1984

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