AN Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China-china.org.cn

A translation of Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in Shanghai.

Eighth Route Army soldiers celebrating victory on the Great Wall.

Mao Zedong went to Chongqing to talk with the Kuomintang government.

Private handicraftsmen turned to the socialist path by way of cooperatives.

Workers of the Daqing Oilfield at work.

A village-level organization signing a contract with peasants.

At the Third Plenary Session of the Twelfth Party Central Committee in Beijing in October 1984, the Party passed the “Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Reform of the Economic Structure”, pointing out that the socialist economy is a planned commodity economy based on public ownership. It was decided that economic reform in the urban areas would start in 1985.