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

1984 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. G. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Plenary Session ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Communist Party Of China

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.

History Matters: Chinese Urbanisation as an Emergent Space

Urbanisation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimin Sun ◽  
Daria Lisaia
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Type

This article explores the process of urbanisation in China in the context of three historical transformations spanning the period 1840–2017. During the first two transformations urbanisation took place slowly, with the fragmented development of cities without a systemic character. This laid the foundation for the third historical transformation, the policy of reforms and openness in 1978, which opened up opportunities for the development of cities and stimulated a wave of internal labour migration. Over the last 30 years, urbanisation in China has acquired a huge scale, becoming a powerful tool for the development of the country’s economy. Initially a spontaneous development, in the 2000s urbanisation began to acquire a strategically planned approach. In 2014, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC Central Committee) announced the adoption of a ‘National New-Type Urbanisation Plan’ (2014–2020), which marked a qualitative transition in terms of the management of the urbanisation process. This article argues that a nuanced historical analysis of China’s urbanisation is key to studying its urban future.

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